On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:19 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,




Ah, but it doesn't only matter if you have to build *another* server exactly
like it, it matters because you should be able to *rebuild* the same box in
case of disaster at any time :)


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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