managing applications

[Shawn O'Shea]

On 1/7/08, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
> OK, another unix operations theory question:
>
>    What's the best way to maintain installs of applications?


This may not be as useful for small scale implementations, but I know of
some sites (including other groups here where I work) that do config file
management with cfengine. You can then use your favorite automated install
tool to maintain a "software config" for your systems (ie a kickstart file
specifying the necessary software groups/packages). So a new box would
would, blast the OS with autoinstall
(kicksstart/jumpstart/autoyast/FAI/etc/etc), hopefully including cfengine.
Then cfengine syncs the configs

http://www.cfengine.org/ for the source.
As far as with distros, Red Hat doesn't seem to ship it, but ie rpmforge
maintains RPMs for it. The ubuntu universe repository seems a little behind
(carrying a 2.1.x version when cfengine is at 2.2.3) but it is in there.

-Shawn
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