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Re: Current best practices for system configuration management?

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Hi all,


Sorry to resurrect an old-ish thread, but I am facing the exact same
task, minus the know-how.

Basically I am looking to pre-configure a number of Debian setups -
let's say, "server", "laptop" and "PC" - that would contain sets of
packages to install (or uninstall), configuration files (including but
not limited to /etc/), and possibly arbitrary scripts to execute upon
installation (e.g. to make more precise edits to configs).

I would like to store these in some central, git-controlled location
where I could pull them from to my target machines. This kind of setup
could be rather low-level, such as configuring APT sources and
preferences, installing and configuring systemd-networkd, etc.
Ideally, I would also be able to incorporate these into a Debian
installer so I could get a new machine "up and running" with my
defaults in one go.

It is worth adding that I am not looking to build an "infrastructure",
and no setup *between* these machines (networking, file sharing, etc.)
is necessary.

Generally, I would rather avoid complicated tools like Ansible and
those with large dependencies such as interpreted languages (except
Perl).

So far, equivs and config-package-dev appear most relevant, but the
former is somewhat lacking in documentation (or I am in
documentation-finding ability), and the latter seems to be focused on
config editing/deployment rather than package installation.


Would be grateful for some advice!

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Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-04-19 02:30 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-04-19 03:00 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Alexandre Rossi <niol@zincube.net> - 2024-04-19 08:40 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration          management? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2024-04-19 17:30 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-04-19 22:50 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-04-21 02:00 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2024-04-21 03:20 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-04-21 04:10 +0200
      Re: Current best practices for system configuration          management? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2024-04-24 18:30 +0200
    Mesh VPN on Debian (Was Re: Current best practices for system  configuration management?) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-04-21 15:40 +0200
    Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Mike Castle <dalgoda@gmail.com> - 2024-05-27 18:40 +0200
      Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Dmitrii Odintcov <cyprussocialite@gmail.com> - 2024-06-22 20:40 +0200
        Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-06-23 00:50 +0200
  Re: Current best practices for system configuration management? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-04-21 11:30 +0200

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