[olug] Server config revision control

Adam Lassek adam at doubleprime.net
Wed May 18 21:05:35 UTC 2011


Puppet looks really interesting, but at first glance it looks like a Turing tarpit for my purposes. I'm just looking for a simple versioned backup system.

On May 18, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Carl Lundstedt wrote:

> We've started using puppet.  Puppet uses git as it's backend.  Have a look and see if it's what you need.
> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/About_Puppet
> 
> Carl
> 
>>> I'm looking for something that would watch /etc or any set of files I
>>> configure and automatically push changes to a git repository. Does
>>> anything like this exist?
>> I personally use etckeeper for /etc, but if you really want something that
>> watches for changes, I wrote https://gitorious.org/gitbackup to monitor my
>> maildirs. I don't know if it would work together with etckeeper or not, but it
>> might.
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