On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 5:10:05 AM UTC-5, Dan Ritter wrote: ... > For a single system, etckeeper is an excellent choice. It stores > changes anywhere in /etc (and optionally in other places) in > git or subversion. > > You can go a little farther easily by learning git directly. > https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 is a good resource. > > If you have multiple systems that need to be handled in similar > ways, you want to learn an advanced configuration management > system like chef, puppet, ansible, salt... > > -dsr-
Dan, Thank you for the list of solutions. It is interesting that SVN can be used with etckeeper. It looks like I should learn git. I have used SVN for other things, but I am easily pulled from my comfort zone for value. There is an interesting challenge here on where/how to keep repositories on a laptop. It is valuable to have them locally as often my problems are networking; if the repositories are local, I can use another box to view them, but sometimes it may be a challenge to move files when connectivity is lost. I am sure there is an architecture that will be suitable. It seems like there may be value in using both a config mgr and a version control system. I will start checking into these to better understand. Thank you, Ray
