Re: Thoughts on post-configuration

[Jerome Brown <guruswami@orcon.net.nz>]

Paul Dorman wrote:
> [warning: off topic, but hopefully not too off topic :o)  ]
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've been mulling this one over for a while now, and it occurs to me that 
> there must be some members of this list tackling the same problem.
> 
> I'm using Xen for hosting web development projects. I have a number of domain 
> 'templates' and a script which can create a new domain based on one of these 
> templates with just a few parameters. This will be greatly expanded and ... 
> 'webified' later on (just allows me to quickly build new domains for people 
> right now -- later they'll do it themselves).
> 
> Once a new domain has been created, there's a bunch of places where 
> configuration files need to be edited, and I'm wondering what the best 
> automation tool or method might be for this. One option might be to borrow 
> some of the techniques from the Systemimager project, which can take care of 
> doing post-cloning configuration changes, but I'm not sure. Eventually I'd 
> like to integrate everything into one browser-based wizard process:
> 
> log on -> choose new project (fill in metadata) -> choose template (many to 
> choose from) -> create domain -> post install config changes -> send report 
> (and done).
> 
> I'm setting things like hostname, hosts, apache configs, ez-publish configs, 
> etc. Are there any tools you know about which are really effective and easy 
> to customize and integrate into custom solutions? I'd love to hear of any 
> successful strategies.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul

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