From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerome Brown Subject: Re: Thoughts on post-configuration Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:07:32 +1300 Message-ID: <41871614.2080305@orcon.net.nz> References: <200411021336.04767.pauld@cwa.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200411021336.04767.pauld@cwa.co.nz> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 cfengine www.cfengine.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click