[Gllug] Configuration file sharing

[william pink]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 03:20:46PM +0100, william pink wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> > > Rsync would work, but how about using version control?  Something
> > > simple like CVS would work fine for simple text-based configuration
> > > files.
> >
> > I suppose I would have to use Rsync AND a VCS anyway
>
> What I was thinking of was to use CVS as the synching mechanism.
>
> However it's not very scalable if you have tons of web servers -- you
> end up needing to log into each one and do 'cd /etc/httpd && cvs up &&
> /etc/init.d/httpd restart'.  I used to (about 12 years ago) manage
> some servers which were configured like this.
>
> Puppet is going to be a better solution all round for this.
>
> Rich.
>
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I haven't got tons but I would like a scalable solution for sure.

Thanks for the all the suggestions,

Will
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