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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:40:22 +0200
From:      Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: best software for managing multiple freebsd & linux machines ?
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:18:45AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
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> On 10/13/21 11:07, Julien Cigar wrote:
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> > I'm using Saltstack with https://github.com/silenius/jails-formula
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> Thanks, I'll look into it.
> From the short description I think it doesn't suit my needs, but I'll look
> better.
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(I'm the author of the formula)

The formula currently doesn't support zfs clones-like and/or send/recv=20
jails (it currently fetches everything).

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> > What's wrong with installing a minion in each jail?
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> Overhead, mainly.
> Having a lot of Salt process running consumes memory (which might be scar=
ce
> in older systems).

That's true, although a salt-minion process consumes only ~60MB. Unless
you have many many jails or older system with less RAM I would say
that memory usage is not an issue.

> More packages to install/maintain/upgrade.

You can handle this with an orchestration script or ...

> Etc...
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> > There is salt-ssh too if you don't want to install a minion
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> Might be better, although I guess it would need enabling SSH in every jail
> (which is something I don't normally do).
> I'll look into it anyway.
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>  bye & Thanks a lot
> 	Andrea Venturoli
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