push a few config files to dozen or so servers

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:02:34 +0100
Marko Cupać <marko.cupac at mimar.rs> wrote:

> 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?
> 
I started a long time ago with scripts doing this job. It has one clear
advantage which is also its biggest disadvantage. Your scripts do
precisely what you want but it is you who has to keep up with the herd.

I got later caught in other work when I started to enable them to do
even customised configuration.

Erich