[ILUG] SCM for configs

[John Moylan]

Hmm, actually etckeeper seems to tie closely into apt. On rpm based
systems I roll my RPM's with %{config}(noreplace) so that config's
never get replaced or deleted by RPM upgrades. Currently, I am using
scripts on cluster servers to grab configs from an NFS server and test
that they are properly formed, service restarts/reloads are manual. I
guess the next step is to set up an SSH server with hostkeys and user
keys running a GIT server which would only allowing certain commands
to run by using SSH's authorized_keys COMMAND option.The cluster
member servers would query the GIT server periodically to check for
config updates - if a file was new it would then download that file
and reload the service - failure to reload the service would involve
the server reverting to it's old config and sending an SNMP trap. New
management scripts would be rolled out nightly in signed RPM's via
YUM.

Somebody must have written this already? If not, then I guess I have a
new project;)

J

On Feb 6, 2008 7:29 AM, John Moylan <john at nuatech.net> wrote:
> Thanks Rick, that looks like a very interesting project.
>
> J
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:04 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Quoting John Moylan (john at nuatech.net):
> >
> > > Just wondering if anyone is using GIT or SVN or other to manage version
> > > control for server configuration files across a cluster? I'm looking to
> > > set something up but would like to hear from anyone that might already
> > > have some good recipes they might like to share.
> >
> > Look up etckeeper.
> >
>
>