push a few config files to dozen or so servers

[Christopher Hall]

Hello Rainer,

On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:20:24 +0100,
Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > Despite all that, there is still lots and lots to recommend
> > Puppet. However, if there's another configuration management
> > framework that is more "FreeBSD-friendly," then it would be good to
> > know of that.  With large-scale system installations becoming more
> > and more prevalent, so too does the importance of configuration
> > management and orchestration systems.  I've been looking at Salt
> > recently, which I've heard is supposed to be quite
> > "FreeBSD-friendly."  Does anyone know of any others that have a
> > great FreeBSD community and support behind them?
> 
> 
> 
> There’s also chef, which has as little (or even less) support for
> FreeBSD. But I believe it’s the most powerful of the ones available.
> 
> I’ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has decent
> support for FreeBSD.
> 
> Anybody got experience with that?

I initially tried Chef, but had many problems on FreeBSD so I switched
to Ansible and found it works quite well.  I use Poudriere to build a
custom repository for my packages.  Set up a base Machine or VM
with ssh + python working then I use Ansible scripts to create and
maintain jails on the machines.

I also tag certain operations in the scripts so that I can quick
update configuration files with out having to run through every
operation.  There is a simple template system to allow customisation
of the files.
   
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Best Regards.
Christopher Hall.