Managing IOS Configuration Snippets
Erik Muller
erikm at buh.org
Thu Feb 27 21:05:47 UTC 2014
On 2/27/14, 15:52 , Joe Abley wrote:
> This is not any kind of sensible answer to the original question, but
> the general approach “give ops people a shell on a box with a rancid
> repository, encourage them to write scripts that do stuff” has the
> potential to cause all kinds of good things to happen faster than the
> time taken to organise a conference call to discuss requirements
> gathering for a “production” system.
+1000. And that applies equally to the backend. I have yet to meet a
fancy, integrated, database-driven configuration management system that can
beat a bunch of flat files and a few perl scripts. Hackability of a system
can be a definite virtue here.
-e
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