[ILUG] SCM for configs

[Eoin Hennessy]

It might also be worth looking at Savon [0]. It's built on SVN and
works very well.

Eoin

[0] https://thomas.apestaart.org/thomas/trac/wiki/projects/savon

On Feb 6, 2008 1:34 PM, John Moylan <john at nuatech.net> wrote:
> Hmm, actually etckeeper seems to tie closely into apt. On rpm based
> systems I roll my RPM's with %{config}(noreplace) so that config's
> never get replaced or deleted by RPM upgrades. Currently, I am using
> scripts on cluster servers to grab configs from an NFS server and test
> that they are properly formed, service restarts/reloads are manual. I
> guess the next step is to set up an SSH server with hostkeys and user
> keys running a GIT server which would only allowing certain commands
> to run by using SSH's authorized_keys COMMAND option.The cluster
> member servers would query the GIT server periodically to check for
> config updates - if a file was new it would then download that file
> and reload the service - failure to reload the service would involve
> the server reverting to it's old config and sending an SNMP trap. New
> management scripts would be rolled out nightly in signed RPM's via
> YUM.
>
> Somebody must have written this already? If not, then I guess I have a
> new project;)
>
> J
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2008 7:29 AM, John Moylan <john at nuatech.net> wrote:
> > Thanks Rick, that looks like a very interesting project.
> >
> > J
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:04 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > > Quoting John Moylan (john at nuatech.net):
> > >
> > > > Just wondering if anyone is using GIT or SVN or other to manage version
> > > > control for server configuration files across a cluster? I'm looking to
> > > > set something up but would like to hear from anyone that might already
> > > > have some good recipes they might like to share.
> > >
> > > Look up etckeeper.
> > >
> >
> >
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