Well, these servers are cloud servers, so nightly snapshots are taken. And it really is a one off box.
If I need to duplicate it, I just spin up another image anyway. -----Original Message----- From: "Carl.caum" <carl.c...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 23:05:30 To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com<puppet-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Package Management - how far do you go? 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? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
