[UFO Chicago] syncing multiple workstations to one master

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Thu Sep 1 05:58:32 PDT 2011


Calvin Pryor:
> I know I read something somewhere about a Linux/Debian type tool that
> will sync multiple computers to one "master". You just make changes to
> the master (updates, etc) and the changes are magically propagated to
> all others computers set up to do so.
> 
> What am I thinking of ?

Configuration management, as a whole.  Most likely Puppet, which is the
Least Bad of all the options out there right now.  Possibly older and
more broken/dangerous systems like CFEngine, or newer and equally
dangerous systems like Chef.


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