On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:20 -0800, Shane Stixrud wrote: > > I have been using another config mgmt system, puppet, > > (http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet) I wrote up an example of how > > a config mgmt tool could help in solving the kind of problem you are > > looking at: http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/puppet-app.html > > Puppet looks like a very promising centralized change distribution system. > As you mentioned this separates the "how" changes are applied from the > "what" is actually changing. If you combine the change re-visioning > concept mentioned above with a puppet like centralized distribution system > that can detect client changes we now have something quite impressive. Yes, one of the things I am very interested in is combining puppet with a distributed SCM like mercurial, both for distribution of canned configs, and for tracking changes to those configs over time. Puppet right now logs what changes it applied to each machine, but that should probably be expanded to produce a more focused history. > In fact it resembles very much what I have with my Cisco equipment + > management software. Interesting. Any pointers where I can look at docs ? David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
