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

• 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

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