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03/08
8:04 am
Source control for your server
Barry wrote an interesting article about using source control repositories (SVN) for server config files. I remotely manage over a dozen linux servers and I confirm that source control over ANY server file can save you a lot of headaches.
If you’re setting up a linux server from scratch, it’s a good idea to install svn and create a repository for files which can/will be modified often.
Barry Hess
March 3, 2008
8:37 am
Alex, do you have any deployment strategies in place for these configuration files? Or do they change infrequently enough that you just use SCP or some such to get the files out there?
Alex
March 3, 2008
8:18 pm
Yes I have a few deployment strategies for managing server config files such as /etc/passwd, etc.
I’ll save it for another post ;)
Thanks!