Configuration from files

[Anand Buddhdev]

On 08/03/2013 09:17, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:

Hi Michal,

> I know it is not what you asked for, but maybe it can help you with some
> experiments at least:
> 
>   http://mj.ucw.cz/sw/bex/
> 
> It is system of shell scripts that is able to define sets of machines. Then you
> can queue scripts to be run on some of the machines or sets and, after that, let
> it run the scripts on all the machines where it is queued (it uses ssh to
> connect there, preferably with keys so you don't need to re-type passwords).
> The good thing about it is it's relatively simple (not an idempotent monster),
> so if it breaks it is easy to fix, and, also, it handles machines that are down
> well. It just doesn't delete the job from the machine's queue and once running
> of all scripts is requested again, it catches up.
> 
> So, probably not something you want to have in real production system, but it
> would allow you to call bindctl with some commands on each of the machines.

Thank you for this pointer. I've worked with such systems before, and
they are fine for some kinds of setups. As you mentioned, it's not what
I'm looking for though.

I'll just wait for a newer release of BIND10 that has better zone
management.

Regards,

Anand