Configuration Management

How best to manage the configuration of the servers

It has become clear that a configuration managment system needs to be implemented for the servers

Virtualisation of services would mean that they can be set up once and moved around the servers as hardware is upgraded
Access can be controlled on a per-service level
Does not solve the configuration managment problem
Xen 3.0.3 will reach etch on Oct-31st. Remaining updates are most likely to just be bug fixes.

/etc could be put into CVS
A possible structure would have different branches for each server and trunk holds common configuration
Update would be pushed in a similar way to the website ie. on each commit a script is run to push the updates