Personally I like to increase my chances of getting to the bar early.
If you know you're going to want to build the box again, automate it.
If you need to ensure the box looks a certain way, automate it. If it
takes the same amount of time to automate it as it does to not
automate it, automate it. If it takes a little extra time to automate
it but maybe someday somewhere you might want to do it again, automate
it. So really, only don't bother if automating means without a doubt
it will cost you time, now or in the future, for one extra beer.
On May 28, 2010, at 10:19 PM, Matt Juszczak <m...@atopia.net> wrote:
I have a "basenode" class which installs most of the packages needed
on a specific server. For the database servers, we ensure mysql is
installed, setup the directory structure, etc.
But what about "one off" servers? For instance, I have a tools
server, that sort of runs random one-off tools in production.
Today, I had to install a bunch of python libraries on it to make
something in my home directory work that I was trying to get working.
Would you guys have installed those packages manually, knowing that
you won't ever really have to launch another server exactly like it,
or would you have added those packages to puppet so that they would
be installed should the box ever need to be re-configured from
scratch? How far would you go to keep puppet and your system 100%
in sync?
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