push a few config files to dozen or so servers

[Guido Falsi]

On 02/05/15 13:20, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:02:34 +0100, Marko Cupać <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,
> 
> 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.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>