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Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

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Hi,

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:14:52PM -0700, ray wrote:
> I would really like to hear how others track their changes or suggestions how I may tack changes.

I configure almost everything with configuration management like
puppet or ansible. Then the configuration is treated like code, can
be documented like code, stored in revision management (e.g. git)
like code.

I honestly don't think it's overkill for even one system, because as
you say, it is tricky to document things properly even for one
system.

I won't always go as far as installing and configuring a package
with the config management straight off. Depending on what system I
am working on I will sometimes "cheat" and install it manually with
apt, configure the files with an editor etc. But I do always at
least try to "go back" and recreate the working config with
config management so it's repeatable.

Cheers,
Andy

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How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 05:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-08-26 06:10 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:10 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2017-08-26 11:50 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:20 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-26 12:10 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:30 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-26 19:00 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-26 23:20 +0200
        Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-27 17:20 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-27 13:50 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-31 05:00 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 10:50 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-31 23:40 +0200
        Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System hdv@gmail <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 07:50 +0200
          Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-09-01 13:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-27 16:00 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-31 05:20 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-31 23:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-27 17:50 +0200

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