Questions tagged [provisioning]
Provisioning - manual and/or automated OS deployments to physical and virtual machines.
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FLOSS Server management and audit tools
I've been working with HP's Server Automation tool suite for a long time, and while it's a great tool - it's too much for a small business or home network to use (more accurately: it's way too ...
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Why use Chef/Puppet over shell scripts?
New to Puppet and Chef tools. Seems like the job that they are doing can be done with shell scripting. Maybe it was done in shell scripts until these came along.
I would agree they are more readable. ...
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Advantages of thick provisioning of storage over thin provisioning with virtual machines
I typically use thin-provisioning of storage space when building VMs: it provides a lot of flexibility, and seems to be faster to build.
The only potential definite advantage I can see is to ensure ...
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Server installation logging / logbook / diary?
Are there some ways field-tested ways to keep a kind of logbook for a server? Including:
software installations (and de-installations)
custom configurations (e.g. of a webserver, ssh daemon, etc.)
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How to upload configuration files using the shell provider?
Apart from installing applications like emacs on my guest machine, I would also like to upload some configuration files (e.g. to configure emacs for Clojure development). Sadly, Vagrant's ...
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Question about VMWare thin provisioning
I'm playing around with virtual disks and thin provisioning and have a question about it.
I've created several disks and allocated space to with thin provisioning. Is it possible to allocate more ...
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Check version using Chef
I have a small application installed on a few servers, I wanted to write a quick recipe that will allow me to gather the version number from these servers.
This is what I've written:
bash "Get app ...