So I’ve been plunged into Asterisk by inheriting a 5 year old “RasPBX” installation that appears to be an unofficial copy of something that is Sangoma’s and Digium’s product. I have seen a lot of disdain and concern for the future of the FreePBX add-on web GUI. I note that the current “official” image is still based on CentOS, which is EoL in mid-2024?

I have received advice from people that know better that I should just use straight-up Asterisk. This makes some sense to me, although I haven’t been able to find very much in the way of information or stories on the Internet about how people do it.

My biggest concern is that the configuration and management of Asterisk seems to be centered around modifying files in the (default) /etc/asterisk location. Wouldn’t it make sense to make that into a git repo or something, and use that to maintain configuration history and so on? Is there any accumulated wisdom about how to build a little PBX with only Asterisk?
Thank you,