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#9 Try puppet Posted by Anonymous (81.57.xx.xx) on Thu 31 May 2007 at 06:35 You should have a look at puppet. It's been covered here: part 1, part 2. It's basically better than systemimager in case you need your machines not to be perfectly identical (eg, have a few of them configured as web-server, print-server). It's also more compelling than cfengine, because it has a notion of packages, cronjobs, and such high-level primitives. And it is able to manage config files, doing variable substitutions in them. As far as a default package selection, I don't think debian has it. Ubuntu maintains the metapackages ubuntu-standard, ubuntu-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-server for that purpose. Or a better idea is to use taksel for the default packages: tasksel --list-tasks tasksel --task-packages desktop It's still pretty minimal on debian, on ubuntu you get a more complete list: tasksel --task-packages ubuntu-desktop
You should have a look at puppet.
It's been covered here: part 1, part 2.
It's basically better than systemimager in case you need your machines not to be perfectly identical (eg, have a few of them configured as web-server, print-server). It's also more compelling than cfengine, because it has a notion of packages, cronjobs, and such high-level primitives. And it is able to manage config files, doing variable substitutions in them.
As far as a default package selection, I don't think debian has it. Ubuntu maintains the metapackages ubuntu-standard, ubuntu-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-server for that purpose.
Or a better idea is to use taksel for the default packages: tasksel --list-tasks tasksel --task-packages desktop
It's still pretty minimal on debian, on ubuntu you get a more complete list: tasksel --task-packages ubuntu-desktop
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