> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Brian Atkisson
> 
> Manage the files you care about with puppet, keeping the modules in a git
> repo.  If you are concerned about files changing that aren't managed with
> puppet, watch them with aide.

I'm really not interested in puppet or chef for this purpose, for about a 
zillion reasons.  Here's the simplest most important one:

Config management is great, if you're building new systems, and especially if 
you're building and removing a lot of systems from production on a regular 
basis, and you own it all from scratch.  Not great if you inherited a small 
number of undocumented customer facing servers which are already in production.

Yes, of course, the plan is to build a new standard, including all the 
documentation, and replace the existing servers.  But if you seriously have 
only 1-3 servers to maintain, it's not worth building another server to be the 
config management server.  (How do you manage the config of the config 
management server anyway?)

Thank you for the suggestion though.

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