push a few config files to dozen or so servers

[Schaich, Alonso]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:02:34 +0100
Marko Cupa? <marko.cupac at 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,

If they really need to be identical all the time, I'd put them on a
network share mounted at boot and symlink on them from etc, var/mail,
and so on. repositories can be mount points themselves, so clearly
candidates for a network share, too.

Alonso
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