Comments on: Version your /etc http://www.cmdln.org/2009/02/19/version-your-etc/ a system administrators mutterings Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick Anderson http://www.cmdln.org/2009/02/19/version-your-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Nick Anderson Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:06:05 +0000 http://www.cmdln.org/?p=264#comment-821 Indeed you are, even <a href="http://standalone-sysadmin.blogspot.com/2009/02/ideas-on-maintaining-customized-shelll.html" rel="nofollow">Matt Simmons mentioned you</a>. I've played with puppet several times. Still trying to get over the rubyness of it. :) It is definitely the best thing I have seen for the job. One of these days I will get it implemented. I do like etckeeper for one off servers in small environments that don't have the luxury of a well managed infrastructure. Indeed you are, even Matt Simmons mentioned you.
I’ve played with puppet several times. Still trying to get over the rubyness of it. :) It is definitely the best thing I have seen for the job. One of these days I will get it implemented. I do like etckeeper for one off servers in small environments that don’t have the luxury of a well managed infrastructure.

]]> By: Nick Anderson http://www.cmdln.org/2009/02/19/version-your-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-820 Nick Anderson Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:59:02 +0000 http://www.cmdln.org/?p=264#comment-820 I use git for all of my revisioning stuff. One thing thats nice about it is not having to setup a git server. Each git repo is a full repository and I am not bound to having a single central repository. I can use that workflow if I want, but I don't have to. I use git for all of my revisioning stuff. One thing thats nice about it is not having to setup a git server. Each git repo is a full repository and I am not bound to having a single central repository. I can use that workflow if I want, but I don’t have to.

]]> By: NM http://www.cmdln.org/2009/02/19/version-your-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-819 NM Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:48:49 +0000 http://www.cmdln.org/?p=264#comment-819 I use fsvs, it's really nice: http://fsvs.tigris.org/ It's based on SVN. I'm pretty sure git is superior to svn for developers, but I can't figure why it'd be better for admin revision control. It's not like you're going to make heavy use of branching/merging .. I use fsvs, it’s really nice: http://fsvs.tigris.org/

It’s based on SVN. I’m pretty sure git is superior to svn for developers, but I can’t figure why it’d be better for admin revision control. It’s not like you’re going to make heavy use of branching/merging ..

]]> By: Legooolas http://www.cmdln.org/2009/02/19/version-your-etc/comment-page-1/#comment-818 Legooolas Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:14:20 +0000 http://www.cmdln.org/?p=264#comment-818 I'm famous! ;) I use Puppet for this kind of thing and couldn't recommend it highly enough. Puppet and SVN on the puppet config gives me versioned configs for both the etc files which puppet manages and the puppet config of what runs on which nodes. I’m famous! ;)

I use Puppet for this kind of thing and couldn’t recommend it highly enough. Puppet and SVN on the puppet config gives me versioned configs for both the etc files which puppet manages and the puppet config of what runs on which nodes.

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