Introduction to Configuration Management

[@danielkrajnik3817]

thanks for this explanation, made me think again about difference between imperative vs declarative coding... and come to think of it those are really just different levels of "formal grammars" if that makes sense

[@berinlarson9548]

This was very helpful. I had trouble knowing where configuration management fits in the bigger picture.

[@danielkrajnik3817]

I'm really curious about documentation and code being the same thing concept - do you think we could have it like that in some other areas other than infrastructure as well? Sounds like a great idea - LISP?

[@Flankymanga]

Bless you Dave for this video! This is exactly what i was searching for months....

[@saimashiraz1754]

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[@James_Haskin]

These are such great videos. Please continue to make them!

[@lvond555]

Excellent! Thanks for the information. I look forward to playing with some of these tools.

[@inFAdepT]

sorry im new to configuration management. In what situation will companies need to deploy 1000's containers/images and is configuration management only limited to web development? thanks!

[@TheMattprune]

Thanks good video. How technical does a config manager need to be?

[@tutoriaLinux]

I don't know if pure configuration management is its own job title -- from my experience this is just a skill set that's expected of modern sysadmins, devops engineers, SREs, etc. Infrastructure and configuration as code is a well-accepted standard these days, so being familiar with some config management tools is a huge plus when getting into this industry as a technical IC.

[@jamelb2583]

It's not easy to follow your video without presentation, it's a shame because what you say is very interesting.

[@marespcservices]

thank you for the great videos. You got me hooked on tmux. I wanted to ask what you recommended for the step before config management. What is a good software to install the OS? Thinking something like cobbler which I think is good for redhat based distros but not debian. Is there a solution that automates installing debian, fedora and dare I say it even winblows?
Do you manually install the OS and then the config management kicks in?

[@tutoriaLinux]

***** There are tools for this, but generally you'll install the OS (or OS container):1. From a base image, (if you're using some enterprisey hypervisor + management software),
2. With a base container config (if using LXC, BSD jails),
3. PXEboot (or some wrapper like cobbler),
4. Vagrant with some virtualization back-end
I haven't looked into cobbler in a while, but IIRC you can do non-RedHat distros as well now. I even see this:
www.letifer.org/2014/03/26/cobbler-and-windows/

[@jamellerif3415]

Thanks for your video, but you talk about a concept and you start by talking about ansible puppet ... pity

[@fossboss4050]

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[@tutoriaLinux]

Linux User Hey there, looks like this might have gotten filtered -- I'm not seeing a message from you. Can you try again?

[@fossboss4050]

tutoriaLinux could you email me at: [e-mail] and I will reply? Thanks bud