FErki<p>We consider enabling graceful bootstrapping as one of our main guiding principles around Rex, the friendly automation framework.</p><p>While our “How to get started with Rex” page provides a good initial set of concepts, I wondered about the minimal set of features that already proves useful in practice. I find this especially interesting when using Rex from a cronjob or in a CI/CD pipeline.</p><p>Let’s see what I found through this exercise in minimalism: <a href="https://blog.ferki.it/2025/03/21/minimum-viable-rex/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.ferki.it/2025/03/21/minim</span><span class="invisible">um-viable-rex/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rex</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>perl</span></a></p>