[gentoo-server] Re: [gentoo-sysadmin] Re: master server and other ideas

[Wade Mealing]

The infrastructures.org (i.org) paper is quite bold, and does bring up
some very interesting points. I believe that this direction is where
systems administration has to travel to become truely a engineering
profession.

Less stress, easier deployment and version tracking.  These are the
fundamental elements of any good Systems administration job that I would
be looking for.

The i.org paper is very broad in regards to its system management, and
this is a good thing as its about general practices for any OS and not
specifically unix.  

I think that the best idea right now, would be someone to write some
documentation, on the basics of deploying the i.org theory in Gentoo
linux, with a basic mockup of documentation and practices. 

This is a small project in itself, but will clear up the posibilites and
start discussion on management of an infrastructure and not just a
single host.

> If the infrastructures.org paper has wetted your appetite, there is
> another paper on the same site that goes into detail about order of
> changes being important. The quick summary is that if you make changes
> to the system in X Y Z order, then you may not end up with the same
> system if you make those changes in Y X Z order. This, in a nutshell,
> is what's wrong with cfengine.
>