Tom Cavin | 14 Sep 23:22
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Configuration management lite


Hi All,

I'm looking for a bit of advice.  I have a few (about 10) hosts that serve
as build servers.  They all started life using RedHat Linux kickstart
installs, but they've started to diverge and I'd like to reverse this trend
and keep them controlled.  My impressions of isconf, cfengine and puppet
are that they would be overkill for my needs and a bit more work than I
want (although I could be convinced otherwise) and it seems radmind might
be just whan I need.  My only concern with radmind is whether it can play
nice with rpm.  (And if it can, it would be nice to know how.  :-)

The reason I'd like it to play nice with rpm is I'd like to be able to work
on some random box, get it to do the right thing, and then isolate and
propagate the changes to the other boxes.  Ideally rpm could then have a
locally correct database so "rpm -qa" will be an accurate list of what's on
a box even if the bits on the disk were not installed by rpm on that
system.  (I haven't looked into the guts of rpm to know whether this is
feasible.)

Can I do this with radmind?  Would some other tool be better for this task?

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Best Wishes,

     --Tom
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