FAI + SaltStack anybody?

[Henning Glawe]

Moin,

as I mentioned: check ``fai softupdate``, this feature of 
FAI makes it a configuration manager.

Your running system gets updated to the state you define
in your FAI config without a downtime. No reinstall required.


p.s.: call me biased, as I implemented ``softupdate`` almost 20 years ago
and use it since then as a configuration manager for a few 1k hosts in
various contexts


On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:24:48PM +0000, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Yes. They're different tools with different objectives. FAI excels at
> reinstalling a system, but is not a configuration manager: say you have a
> webserver (actually 3: dev, test and prod) and you need to change the PHP
> version in use. Sure, you can reinstall from scratch with FAI, but why? Way
> faster to just update packages. Or are you reinstalling every time there are
> system updates instead of using apt full-upgrade? 

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