From Warwick Student Cinema
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
- 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
- Xen 3.0.3 will reach etch on Oct-31st. Remaining updates are most likely to just be bug fixes.
Revision Control System
- /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
Configuration Management Software
- Cfengine or puppy are the most popular candidates
