{"id":49,"date":"2007-10-31T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T01:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cae.tntech.edu\/mwr\/2007\/10\/31\/client-configuration-management\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:26:19","slug":"client-configuration-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/2007\/10\/31\/client-configuration-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Client Configuration Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the infrastructures.org mothership, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrastructures.org\/bootstrap\/config.shtml\">client configuration management<\/a> is described as everything that makes a host unique and\/or part of a particular group or domain. And for Unix-like systems, everything pretty much comes down to configuration files, services being enabled\/disabled, and cron jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reductivelabs.com\/trac\/puppet\/wiki\/TypeReference#file\">Configuration files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reductivelabs.com\/trac\/puppet\/wiki\/TypeReference#service\">Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reductivelabs.com\/trac\/puppet\/wiki\/TypeReference#cron\">Cron jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looks like Puppet pretty much handles all of that. As long as I can describe aspects of my systems with puppet classes and modules, I&#8217;ve got reusable, consistent configurations on any servers I care to manage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the infrastructures.org mothership, client configuration management is described as everything that makes a host unique and\/or part of a particular group or domain. And for Unix-like systems, everything pretty much comes down to configuration files, services being enabled\/disabled, and cron jobs. Hmm. Configuration files Services Cron jobs Looks like Puppet pretty much handles &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/2007\/10\/31\/client-configuration-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Client Configuration Management&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructures","category-puppet","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/renfro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}