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ChappIO
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I have multiple (similar) linux environments on which I work. How do you guys manage installed packages and configurations across them?

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    What I'm going to do soon to deal with this very thing:

    Private git repo:
    * Config files
    * List of packages installed
    * Script responsible for installing all those packages and copying configs
    * Maybe a script that updates that list of installed packages
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    Depends, at work I use saltstack, but we are building our own system to manage that.

    For my private servers, almost everything is automated. And if I need to do something on one or more, I only use SSH (or CSSH)
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    I have a small home lab on my network. Because I use mostly ubuntu machines I was planning to take a look at landscape this weekend. Does anyone have any thoughts?

    It would be for 2 servers, 2 laptops and a desktop.
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    Just use ansible scripts
    https://www.ansible.com
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    I just use docker, k8s(minikube for local dev) and helm, it makes it easy to match the production(or test/staging/demo/whatever) environments for any number of projects and new people who join can get things up and running very quickly.
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    You can use chef or puppet for configuration management
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    @ChappIO
    Landscape is not free thou :(
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    Packer + Salt works fine. Tried Ansible, not for me.
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    @stuqshwk and you use that for infrequently connected machines like laptops?
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    @ChappIO well, laptop yes, infrequent no. Mostly for servers, though.
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    I don't really use multiple systems, at least not similar enough for this particular use case, but for my home desktop and home server machines, I've got tweaked copies of a collection of scripts that handle my initial system setup. Had to reinstall my dev machine recently and I had everything installed and running again in under an hour.

    I used the following repo as a base for my custom scripts: https://github.com/snwh/...
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    @Linux But so far it is the only platform that I found that can manage infrequently connected systems.

    The problem I am running into with other platforms is that either they are built to only manage servers. Or they need a constant connection.
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    @ChappIO
    Maybee Spacewalk CAB achieve that too..?
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