[colug-432] Setting Up New Servers

[Chris Embree]

I use Kickstart for base OS stuff plus authorized keys.  From there
you can pick and choose your config mgt tool.  I've used cfEngine and
Ansible with success.

Yes, that means you have to track down all of the changes and make
them in your Cfg tool.  It also means you can do that for 1-N
additional servers.  If you're just doing a new one every year or so,
you might just keep writing things down.

$0.02.  YMMV.

On 4/16/15, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at postpro.net> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> Is there anyone here who has ever set up more than two servers? I am
> curious about what you may have thought of or done in terms of
> automating the process.
>
> For example getting the sudoers file the way you want it... Adding your
> public key... Configuring your bashrc file... You know, all the little
> things you do to make the server yours. Not necessarily software
> installation although that could be done also.
>
> I am looking for something that will make the job a little easier to do
> than simply writing down on a piece of paper every single thing I do to
> configure the box and then following my notes for the next server I set
> up.
>
> Maybe there is a method of running some sort of diff between the two
> servers that would focus only on the kinds of things a server admin
> would do the first day (assuming he could remember it all, and not
> necessarily every single difference between every single file, which
> would of course be overwhelming.
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