[colug-432] configuration management tools

[Chris Punches]

You're talking about a declarative cm system like puppet or salt.

-C

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 10:20 Jeff Frontz <jeff.frontz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a need to generate configuration files for a bunch of different
> (some open-source, some semi-proprietary) applications that run on a bunch
> of different systems.  The format of the configuration files differs
> between applications -- TOML, json, free-form text, etc. -- and the
> contents vary between systems for a given application (but in a readily
> identifiable way - the applications/system form various mesh networks).
>
> For example, I need to set up tor hidden services between hosts and I want
> each host to use a unique service to connect to each other host -- so I
> need to configure the services on a host and I need to configure the
> applications on the other hosts to use the each of the destination hosts'
> services.
>
> I don't want to actually push the configurations to the hosts in
> real-time, but rather I want to store them locally on the configuration
> system (for Reasons).
>
> I know there are several popular configuration management tools, but I
> have zero experience with them -- some/most seem to be tailored to actually
> manipulate each configured machine (vs. capturing the per-machine
> configurations locally).
>
> Anyone use one that fits the bill?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
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