Hi, Nick: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 16:38:28 Nick Douma wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central > location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that > for keeping track of configuration. The intended setup is a farm of > webservers, database servers and the like, on Debian and Windows machines.
Forget about that: Windows configuration management will need to go its own way, and everything else will probably be able to share common procedures. > The point is to keep the configuration in a central location, so we can > easily keep track of it and keep it seperated from the servers themselves. > The final goal is to be able to more easily add new servers to the farm, > that all serve the same data via loadbalancing. The answer is obvious then; you should use a tiered solution with the following "bricks": 1) Automated installation (maybe FAI) 2) Configuration management (the likes of Puppet or CFengine) 3) Deployment orchestration (things like Controltier) > > Is LDAP a suitable solution for the above problem? I started with looking > for a LDAP configuration storage method for Apache 2, but didn't find > anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction, or maybe give me a > starting point. Make a Google search about "devops" and see documents like this one: http://dev2ops.org/storage/downloads/FullyAutomatedProvisioning_Whitepaper.pdf Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201010052148.15205.jesus.nava...@undominio.net
