Chris There are more than a few options out there. Firstly you may want to know that Ansible can be used in a minimal way[1]. Of you can have fun and hack up something silly[2]. For a list I highly suggest you look at Wikipedia[3]
1. https://lathama.net/git/lathama/IaC/src/branch/production/Infrastructure/doit < example I have not updated in a while. 2. https://lathama.net/git/lathama/mvcm 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_configuration_management_software On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 5:50 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a dozen or so computers around the place, mostly running Debian > or a derivative (Rasberry Pi OS). > > I'm looking for a lightweight way to maintain their root-owned > configuration files, things like added scripts in /etc/cron.daily, > postfix configuration, systemd additions, etc. > > While Ansible will do this it feels like overkill to me, **all** I > really need is to manage files, I'm quite happy starting and stopping > systems 'manually' as it were. > > Is there some sort of minimal ansible that will let me do central > management of root-owned files? > > -- > Chris Green > · > -- - Andrew "lathama" Latham -
