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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 05:35:00PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: |
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> What about having a common configuration personalized for every |
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> machine? Let's say I have a lot of web servers, but there is something |
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> inside some configuration files that is dependant on the machine, like |
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> the machine name, or the domain name of the machine. Does cfengine |
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> handle such a situation, replacing those variables with proper values? |
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Yes, of course. |
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> If so, I guess I also could automate the process of SSL certificate |
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> creation, using a proper name and domain for every machine controlled by |
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> cfengine... |
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I've never done this, but I imagine it would be possible. |
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> I'm very interested on this. So this means you could make a very |
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> basic installation of Gentoo, and then configure cfengine and tell the |
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> machine: "you will be a mail server", so the machine then installs every |
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> needed package and configure itself? |
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Yes. Right now, we can install a basic Gentoo server, assign it to the |
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"rsync" group in our cfengine setup and it will fully handle the setup to |
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make that server an rsync.gentoo.org server. All package installation, |
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configuration files, etc. are handled through cfengine. |
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> Do you have some pointer to any docs regarding this? |
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Unfortunatley, no. Documentation is one area of weakness. Once you get the |
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hang of cfengine's syntax, however, it's really not that hard to set up and |
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get working. The hardest part is thinking of all the different steps that |
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must be done in order to set up a (web|rsync|ftp|mail) server the correct |
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way. |
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--kurt |
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