[olug] Watching installs to reproduce/replicate later.

[Jay Bendon]

What you're looking for is Chef or Puppet.

You'd need to know some ruby but not a lot if you don't need to.

There are a large number of community cookbooks available for just about
anything you'd need to deploy and configure.  Its powerful i'd recommend
taking a look as it will likely suite your needs long term.

You can even properly and reliably test using testkitchen and
serverspec(test server state/configuration) and chefspec (chef unit testing)

--Jay

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
wrote:

> Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> writes:
>
> > InstallRite for Windows was good stuff I used it to make installers
> > for old DOS laboratory programs that came on floppy disks.  It was
> > also a sneaky way to circumvent copy protection because you could
> > snapshot it before and after you registered and see the
> > difference. ..........Yeah I'd also like an easy way to do that in
> > Linux.
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Dan Linder <dan at linder.org>
> > Date: 02/03/2015  3:31 PM  (GMT-06:00)
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > Subject: [olug] Watching installs to reproduce/replicate later.
> >
> > Many years ago on Windows there was a tool I could use to take a snapshot
> > of a computer, then I could install programs, edit files, update the
> > registry, reboot, etc, and the next time I ran that snapshot tool it
> would
> > save a file that summarized all the changes performed.  From there it was
> > possible to replicate that install to other compatible Windows systems by
> > "replaying" that summary file.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a similar tool on the Linux side (RHEL/CentOS)?
>
> Though not as polished the classix unix solution is tar and diff, and
> patch.
>
> I expect with docker and friends there are some much more polished
> versions of that basic concept.  Being able to replicate an exact
> environment in the cloud is all the rage these days.
>
> Eric
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