hi! we want to start introducing partial nightly, automatic softupdate runs (from cron) in order to deploy common changes to all our hosts like - the odd new munin server ip - some syslog server infrastructure changes - new name servers (resolve.conf)
etc so, these would be rather basic changes without a high risk to disable machines. of course we also need to do other changes which we would like to do "manually", rather (but still with a softupdate of the respective machine, like - deploying a new version of a service on just one of many servers of this type in order to see that it behaves well under load and wont give us surprises under load, on ALL the servers. - reconfigureing the nameservers (and hope our service wont drop from the net all of a sudden). these would be changes which we would NOT want to have in the nightly run. upgrading all the remaining servers after a week would be a change for the nightly run, on the other hand. how can i do this best, with the config space in svn and as little special cases for servers as possible? /andreas
