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Scenario: I have a "template" server with all the services and packages installed which will be replicated on many new servers.

Each newly replicated server will be stood up by installing a specific version of SLES (15 SP4 in this case), then registered and configured for local network.

My plan is to tar up /home, /root, & /usr from my template server and cherry pick config files out of /etc, then extract the tarball on the new server.

My goal is to transfer the list of installed apps and startup services originally managed using YaST from my template server to the new replicated servers.

I suppose the real question I am trying to ask is where or how does SLES/SUSE store installed services and package manager information? Is there a single location or directory I can migrate or is this a much more complicated question?

Bill-G
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    I would not recommend this way. if you really want to do so I would suggest that you take a look at lxc – djdomi Aug 24 '22 at 17:06
  • While a good suggestion, these new replicated servers will all end up on a VMWare stack of their own all over the country. I'm trying to get away from shipping out huge VMDK files for this process as it's super easy to install the OS on a fresh VM then send something much smaller that can be sent over the internet. – Bill-G Aug 24 '22 at 17:45
  • the only less configuration would be to use docker, that would be the smallest deployment – djdomi Aug 24 '22 at 17:48

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