Comments on: SVN used for configuration management http://linux.xvx.cz/2010/03/svn-used-for-configuration-management/ My personal blog about Linux and other opensource applications. Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Petr Ruzicka http://linux.xvx.cz/2010/03/svn-used-for-configuration-management/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Petr Ruzicka Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:07:58 +0000 http://linux.xvx.cz/?p=225#comment-223 Hello Dave.

I’m updating the configurations by script using cron every midnight.

In this article I just wanted to show what are the possibilities of having config files in SVN repository, because it’s good idea (according me). You can easily track the changes on the machines.

I agree it can be handy to have machines grouped by OS type. I prefer to keep configs per hosts – because if something is not working well on the box I can see all it’s changes.

But it’s just my preference….

I’m sure everybody can script these svn commits/updates and create it’s own solution – here I describe the way how I did it…

See you and good luck…

PetrR

]]> By: dave http://linux.xvx.cz/2010/03/svn-used-for-configuration-management/comment-page-1/#comment-222 dave Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:20:58 +0000 http://linux.xvx.cz/?p=225#comment-222 Peter,

This looks good, but how are you updating your configuration files on the servers? ln -s?

We are kicking around this idea as well, but we are going a different route with it.

Grouping all of our machines based on type. so we will have:
/reporoot
/Linux
/Solaris
/AIX
/…

I would much rather update three files, instead of 250.

]]> By: Krzysztof Tomczyk http://linux.xvx.cz/2010/03/svn-used-for-configuration-management/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Krzysztof Tomczyk Fri, 28 May 2010 13:31:02 +0000 http://linux.xvx.cz/?p=225#comment-201 Tak a look at this tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmsvn

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