Try Blueprint, then - http://devstructure.com/blueprint/
-- Edmund White e...@ewwhite.net On 11/12/14, 6:42 PM, "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" <lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> From: Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) >> >> The obstacle that has always held me back from automating is the lack of >> demand for identical systems, *and* the requirement to have essentially >> written a copy & pastable procedure as prerequisite before you could >> automate. > >If I could smoke a crazy pipe and make a wish for what I wanted to do, it >would be this - I would build a system, perhaps on AWS, Vmware, whatever. > Get it configured and working. And then tell some tool to basically >snapshot that machine's configuration, including list of packages >installed, and their configurations, and all the other stuff that defines >the machine state... In most of my environments, I have some ability to >actually snapshot the machine storage, and then spin up clones of the >machine. But I have to keep a documented procedure of how the original >config was created, so it's not magic "special sauce." But snapshotting >& cloning the storage is undesirable because it is not portable. I'd >like to build a VM on my local vmware or virtualbox or whatever, and then >essentially clone it to AWS or vice versa... Make some change on a >development machine, test it, and then after it's validated, replicate >that change to the production environment by sending essentia > > lly the snapshot differential of the configuration. > >For some reason, this is what I thought puppet/chef/etc did. Am I wrong? > Is this a pipe dream? >_______________________________________________ >Tech mailing list >Tech@lists.lopsa.org >https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
