Make your own configuration deployment system, part 1
In this series of articles, I describe the steps to making a flexible configuration deployment system tailored to your needs. It can be as simple or as complete as you care to make it. And since you made it, you can understand it intimately.
If you have two or more machines to manage, you have probably noticed that they have certain similarities of configuration.
These similarities may include
* network configuration
* basic package list
* configurations of packages
* aliases and shortcuts
* internationalisation settings
You may have spent an enormous amount of time finding the ideal configuration for a piece of software and you would really regret losing your masterpiece in an unfortunate accident. Or you may need to rapidly deploy the same configuration change to a hundred machines. Or you may be simply tired of doing the same procedures every time you install a new machine.
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