pkgng for configuration management?

[Mark Felder]

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013, at 14:49, Kamil Choudhury wrote:
> I've been setting up a private pkgng repository to push software to a
> family of about 20 different hosts. 
> 
> One command software deployment is pretty awesome, so I got to thinking:
> why not go one step further and start pushing configurations for each of
> these hosts via pkgng as well (either by putting the config files into
> the initial software pkg, or via a separate pkg that installs only the
> configurations)? 
> 
> Has anyone else tried going down this rabbit hole? If so, what has your
> experience with the system been?  
> 

I suppose you could create metapackages that write out configuration
files. I'm not sure I like that approach, though. People tend to
gravitate towards things like puppet/chef/ansible/etc.