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Configuration Management refers to establishing and maintaining standardized system configurations within an organization. This tag encompasses the process of defining the configuration profiles, and the software used to manage and deploy it.

Configuration Management refers to establishing and maintaining standardized system configurations within an organization.

This tag encompasses the process of defining the configuration profiles, and the software used to manage and deploy it, such as , , and .

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Is cf-serverd necessary?

Since a cfengine client can run autonomously based upon the files in its 'inputs' directory, why is it necessary to have a policy server running cf-serverd? Would some other file distribution mechanism (NFS, pull from source control, transfer from…
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How to organize deployment process in Chef-controlled environment?

I have a web Linux-based infrastructure which consists of 15 virtual machines and over 50 various services. It is fully controlled by Chef. Most of the services are developed internally. Basically the current deployment process is triggered by a…
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How to fix Puppet fully-qualified parameter path error?

I regularly but randomly get the following error message when I run the puppet client on machines (non-daemonized): err: Could not create : Parameter path failed: File paths must be fully qualified warning: Not using cache on failed…
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Managing servers, applications, configuration and their contacts

Currently we are using a wiki (Confluence) to track this information like: servers applications configuration (IP addressees, domains used owners (contacts) The problem is that a wiki does not scale too well for editing structured data. Is there…
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how to remove a node in rudder 2.3

I'm using Rudder 2.3 (v.2.3.7~rc2~git201205021042 ) since some months now and I have added some VM which have been deleted now. So I search a step by step howto to remove its from my rudder node list. I suppose it's in LDAP entries but may be some…
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Generating Puppet resources from array of hashes

I'm new to Puppet and to start using it I want to learn how to manage system users. I have several users, which share common properties, so I thought I should factor things out. After some struggle, here's what I came with: define…
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IIS-like UI for http.sys programs

Does anyone know if there is a open-source or built-in way to view ALL IIS and http.sys endpoints/sites via a GUI? The problem I have is that I'm a little wary of having no visibility for http.sys applications (e.g. SQL Reporting Services 2008) and…
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Enforcing hashed home directory permissions with puppet

Home directories in our environment are hashed using the first two letters of a username. For example, the home directory for user lars is /home/l/a/lars. I would like to use puppet to enforce mode 0700 permissions on the user home directories,…
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Which tool: graph business services and their technology dependencies

I'm looking to give our company an overview of the business services that IT offers and their various dependencies. The purpose of this graph would be to show the dependencies of technology on business applications with the goal of assisting…
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Is there an automated method to simplify cfengine config?

I work with a cfengine installation that has grown organically and become quite complicated. Some stanzas use many classes, e.g., class1&(class2|class3)&!class4|class5 Is there some tool that would take a cfengine config and simplify it, similar to…
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Using conrep - Capturing and duplicating the BIOS settings

I got an HP ProLiant DL160SE G6, I need to capture the entire BIOS settings of one server and duplicate them to same model servers. This will save us lots of time and eliminate human errors. I understand that it can be done using the conrep tool…
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How does one configure puppet for push-only updates?

Setting runinterval=0 in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf causes continuous pulls, not no pulls. I'm trying to arrange puppet so that it will listen for puppetrun calls, but never pull without one.
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Configuration management in support of scientific computing

For the past few years I have been involved with developing and maintaining a system for forecasting near-shore waves. Our team has just received a significant grant for further development and as a result we are taking the opportunity to refactor…
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Is there such a Chef service that managed by K8s?

I'm looking for a way to manage a Chef into my K8s cluster. My cluster is scaling up and down and I need a way to bootstrap different dependencies for each new node in the namespace. My nodes are in AWS cloud and I'm aware for the userData but it's…
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Firewall configuration as code?

We are currently using a Sophos SG230 as Firewall / upstream router and configuration management is pure horror. Even manually backuping the configuration after every change will result in un-diffable binary changes to the backup file. Is there a…
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