<div dir="ltr">Why better? <div><br></div><div>puppet and version control can compliment each other, as puppet's versioning is hopelessly poor.</div><div><br></div><div>When was the last time you tried to roll back an update you deployed via puppet?</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are no logs or inherent diffs or anything you can do - only a big mess of a hash tree you can maybe grep.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, don't take it from me - here it is on the official puppetlabs wiki:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Change_Management">http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Change_Management</a></div><div><br></div><div>Where the whole issue is still a philosophical one, not even any concrete solutions suggested.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would recommend simply having all of /etc/puppet in a svn/git repo, so you can manage your manifests as well as the actual config files for change management.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2011/7/19 Amos Shapira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amos.shapira@gmail.com">amos.shapira@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 July 2011 21:27, Oleg Goldshmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pub@goldshmidt.org" target="_blank">pub@goldshmidt.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>[ good advise deleted for brevity ]<div class="im">
<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For the future, I try as much as I can to keep stuff like that under<br>
version control, so that if anything gets corrupted I can restore.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Even better - puppet.<br><br>--Amos<br><br></div></div></div>
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