On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:47:25PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Given the move of most system configuration at a large scale to
things
such as puppet and chef, I suspect that this argument has already lost in
the marketplace. Obviously, we should still support more locked down
configurations for the sites that need it, but programmatic application
of system configuration is likely to stay.
At least in the puppet/chef/etc cases you can tell when the system has
fallen out of the config, but other than a diff/hash you're not going to be
able to programmatically determine what it being out of configuration means
for the system operation itself.
Doesn't this make things _worse_ for puppet and chef and friends? When using
those systems, it's nice to do the programmatic config and that level, and
have easily-tweaked key value (or single value per file!) configuration.
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