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Date:      Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:07:46 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: push a few config files to dozen or so servers
Message-ID:  <54D37932.7010808@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <op.xtk288tykndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local>
References:  <20150205130234.3fcbabfb@efreet.mimar.rs> <op.xtk288tykndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local>

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On 02/05/15 13:20, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:02:34 +0100, Marko Cupać <marko.cupac@mimar.rs>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks to virtualization, my fleet of FreeBSD hosts have grown to more
>> than dozen, and it still grows. There are some files that need to be
>> identical on all of them (aliases, sudoers, root crontab, pkg repo
>> files etc.).
>>
>> I was looking at puppet and cfengine but learning and implementing those
>> seem like an overkill for my purpose.
>>
>> Are there any other elegant solutions which can help me achieve my goal?
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Cron and rsync.
> Or create a pkg which you install on all servers.

He could also use an VCS system (subversion, git, fossil, whatever) and
some scripts.

This adds the advantage of having history.

> 
> Just some quick ideas. In the end you just want to use something like
> puppet. :-)

I Agree, in the end that kind of solution is definitely more robust.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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