Centralising configurations of Linux Servers

humbletech99 · 12-31-2006, 07:55 AM

I'd like to discuss if anybody out there centralises their linux server configurations and if so how they do this. I currently use svn and shell deploy scripts with ssh keys to push and restart services.

I was wondering if anybody has a different, perhaps better way of doing this?

Remember, the configurations are not the same across all servers, so you may have a folder of 50 different config files for 50 different servers.

ojnab · 12-31-2006, 08:04 AM

NIS or NIS+ is a brilliant way to centralise configuration of hosts, users, groups, services, networks, auto.master, auto.home etc files.

NFS and automount is a good way to centralise data mount points, and automount is compatible with NIS/NIS+ too.

Dunno how to centralise rc script config though?