Greenfield Bareos Deployment...

[Kevin Salisbury]

Is anyone using Saltstack (Salt Open) to deploy and manage their BareOS installs for servers and clients? If not, how about Ansible? Any best practices or gotchas we should be thinking about?

[Philip Dalrymple]

I use Ansible.

I have done this at two companies and in the first case I put all the configuration in Ansible which was not the best.

Now I have the client configuration in Ansible and the director and storage configuration are in a GitLab project with a deployment script

that copies the correct tree to /etc/bareos. I find this works better. as I can go to the director and edit, commit, push, and update then

just go into bconsole and reload.

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Is anyone using Saltstack (Salt Open) to deploy and manage their BareOS installs for servers and clients? If not, how about Ansible? Any best practices or gotchas we should be thinking about?

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[Kevin Salisbury]

Thanks, Philip.

When you put everything in Ansible, did you find it harder to maintain version control over configuration? Or was it generally not worth the effort to maintain in Ansible? Because we were going to use Salt or Ansible + GitLab for version control as well. We're trying not to touch servers (as much as practical) anymore...

[Seth Galitzer]

I have both my server and client configuration in ansible, currently using file copy, but could very easily switch to templates for job configuration. It's fairly straightforward and efficient. Once you setup your base file tree, it's easy enough to maintain. We do push, but pull is also doable if that works better for you. I like ansible roles, so I use those for everything. We keep ansible in git for easy management.

Seth

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