Re: best software for managing multiple freebsd & linux machines ?

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 08:54:06PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> 
> On 10/11/21 14:30, Peter Boosten via questions wrote:
> 
> > > I think I like Salt, but when I try reading the official manuals, I
> > > always get the feeling the were written "the other way round" (e.g.
> > > providing a lot of nit-picky detail, but failing to give the big
> > > picture).
> 
> Also, a thing I planned on asking since a long time: how do you manage
> jails?
> Of course I don't want to install a minion into each... did you find a way
> to target a jail directly in some way or are you just issuing specific jail
> commands to base?

I'm using Saltstack with https://github.com/silenius/jails-formula

What's wrong with installing a minion in each jail? That's what I'm
doing here and it works well. There is salt-ssh too if you don't want to
install a minion

> 
>  bye & Thanks
> 	av.
> 

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