Re: Preferred method for sysadmin tasks on remote hosts?
Hi John,
"John W. Himpel" <john(a)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