On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:18:07PM -0700, Peter Michaux wrote: > > What I'm thinking is that I'd like to be have some .deb packages that > I can install on a brand new Debian VPS. These packages would create > database users, database, and tables as necessary. These packages > would configure and restart Apache to use the new configuration files. > I would be trying to avoid type anything other than commands to > install packages. Perferably one package that installs all other > packages. > > Any pointers to good resources that describe doing all of this for a > website the most Debian way possible? > > Does this even seem like a reasonable objective?
Debian provides packages and required users and basic configuration, but not detailed configuration. What you are looking for is a configuration management system. There are several available in Debian: chef puppet bcfg2 and probably others not obvious via a quick apt-cache search. All of the above basically work this way: you have a master server which supplies configuration information to other machines, the clients. Each client will contact the master and ask for changes; then the client applies changes, including package installation, de-installation, specfic user creation, and running whatever else you want -- database scripts, apache config, anything else. Lots of people in and out of Debian use configuration management systems; they are clearly superior to the individual server approach as soon as you have two machines doing similar jobs. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140313122247.ga25...@randomstring.org
