On Thursday 10 December 2015 13:40:19 Sarajärvi Tony wrote: > Puppet itself is a way of maintaining virtual machines once they are up and > running, or to initially deploy software on a clean OS. The static machines > we had were maintained via Puppet, but now that we reclone VMs from a > template machine, we don't have to update and maintain several machines > simultaneously. It's just enough that we update the template (master VM) > and all subsequent clones will have the updated software. > > For documentation purposes what we actually have installed, we have been > playing around with installer scripts that take care of provisioning a > clean slate OS with everything we need, but with mixed results. The scripts > themselves take a lot of time writing, and they have to be maintained. But > they are an asset if we want to install everything from scratch. If any 3rd > party wants to duplicate our current OS's, they have to rely on the Qt Wiki > pages for each branch listing the requirements to build Qt.
Puppet can be used for this task. The Puppet files are the installation scripts and serve as documentation. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
