From: david@lang.hm
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: looking for suggestions for managing a tree of server configs
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:20:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1210131413240.6253@asgard.lang.hm> (raw)
I've got a directory tree that holds config data for all my servers. This
consists of one directory per server (which is updated periodically from
what is currently configured on that server), plus higher level summary
reports and similar information.
today I have just a single git tree covering everything, and I make a
commit each time one of the per-server directories is updated, and again
when the top-level stuff is created. This works, but it's not really that
good at letting me go back and see what happened when on a particular
server because of all the other activity going on in git log.
Also, currently all updates to this repository is serialized, but going
forward I'm going to be adding some update processes that could result in
different per-server directories being updated at the same time (and so,
one may be fully populated with new data, while another has just had all
the old data deleted prior to the new data being written). I'm concerned
about possible issues with having these independant and overlapping update
processes all working in a single git tree
I do want to have everythng share one storage repository, because much of
the config on the servers is very standard, so I gain quite a bit by
letting them delta off each other.
Is what I'm currently doing the best way to do this? or should I do
something like having a submodule per server, or is there some other,
better way of doing this.? Are there any tools that I should be using
instead of continuing to use the scripts that I threw together several
years ago?
David Lang
next reply other threads:[~2012-10-13 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-13 21:20 david [this message]
2012-10-14 4:41 ` looking for suggestions for managing a tree of server configs Junio C Hamano
2012-10-14 4:57 ` david
2012-10-21 1:50 ` Drew Northup
2012-10-21 2:34 ` david
2012-10-21 11:58 ` Drew Northup
2012-10-21 23:33 ` david
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