freebsd stable - Feb 2015 - push a few config files to dozen or so servers

On Thu, 05 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,
Cron and rsync.
Or create a pkg which you install on all servers.

Just some quick ideas. In the end you just want to use something like  
puppet. :-)

Ronald.

On 02/05/15 13:20, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Thu, 05 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,
> 
> 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.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>