Re: Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-31 Thread Tim Cutts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30 Aug 2006, at 7:23 pm, Josselin Mouette wrote: First question to the developers, what are you using for deploying configuration on your servers? cfengine. Currently being used to manage configuration files on about 1,500 machines here (m

Re: Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 21:26 +0200, martin f krafft a écrit : > > * The first thing that comes to mind is the ability to divert > > conffiles. This could help a lot to build things around existing > > packages. Do you think this is realistic? Can this be done with > >

Re: Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-30 Thread Eric Dorland
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.30.2023 +0200]: > > First question to the developers, what are you using for deploying > > configuration on your servers? > > cfengine and puppet Are you using both at the same time? Or moving

Re: Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.30.2023 +0200]: > First question to the developers, what are you using for deploying > configuration on your servers? cfengine and puppet > * The first thing that comes to mind is the ability to divert > conffiles. This could

Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi list, For deploying a number of servers at a client's, we've started using package-based configuration. The idea is not new and not complicated: put the local configuration files in Debian packages to deploy them. This answers to the following needs: * simplicity; * ability to dep