On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Kwan Lowe kwan.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Geoff Galitz geoff@galitz.org wrote:
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Any pointers to good automated solutions?
Do you use cfengine or puppet in your environment? If you install the base packages via post installation scripts, you can use cfengine to layer on specific host identities (hostname, IP, configuration, packages, etc.). With either of these tools you can import configurations from a running host and then layer them back to a new host. There is some considerable setup to get it to that point, but lots of scripts available online so much of the work is done.
+1 on cfengine. (Kikckstart|Jumpstart|Fai) + cfengine = admin nirvana.
This also applies to puppet/chef/whatever. Just use management software.