[colug-432] Setting Up New Servers

[Mark Aufdencamp]

+1 Happy Puppet User

I'd also entertin Chef/Ansible/CFEngine/SaltStack.  I think the best
feature is re-constructable.  Fine grained backup and restore yields
quick recovery/rebuild process.  Migration between OS versions does
require some configuration management code updating at times.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [colug-432] Setting Up New Servers
> From: Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at postpro.net>
> Date: Thu, April 16, 2015 10:48 am
> To: colug-432 at colug.net
> 
> 
> 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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