Hi John,
"John W. Himpel" john@jlhimpel.net writes:
All,
I notice that most of our Fedora Server documentation describes using cockpit and command-line and graphical apps.
While I have no objection to this and I believe it works well for maintaining a small number of servers and/or services, it is my belief this becomes quite cumbersome for more than a handful of servers and/or services.
I have been asked to edit the NFS Server service installation and setup documentation currently found in the Staging Environment. The docs should cover both server side and client side procedures. I am more that willing to edit the procedures prescribed in that document. But I prefer using ansible to maintain my server environment. It becomes permanent documentation (in case I am no longer available) and it becomes repeatable by only modifying the "environment files" if a server requires a rebuild.
I am looking for the opinion and experience of the community in deciding whether or not we should document both types of procedures.
I agree and I guess every admin made the transition from ssh-ing into servers to clusterssh to Ansible/Chef/Salt/etc.
However, I think we should make a distinction between deploying a configuration and the configuration itself. These are two separate processes and in the end it shouldn't matter *how* we push the configuration to the nfs server & client, it's the config that matters. How we push the config is a separate topic, that the documentation can also tackle, but in a separate chapter.
Cheers,
Dan