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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-best-practice(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" title="cdist-best-practice(7)" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="id318589"></a>cdist-best-practice(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_passwordless_connections">2. PASSWORDLESS CONNECTIONS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_speeding_up_ssh_connections">3. SPEEDING UP SSH CONNECTIONS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_multi_master_or_environment_setups">4. MULTI MASTER OR ENVIRONMENT SETUPS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_seperating_work_by_groups">5. SEPERATING WORK BY GROUPS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_maintaining_multiple_configurations">6. MAINTAINING MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">7. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">8. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section" title="1. NAME"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-best-practice - Practices used in real environments</p></div><div class="section" title="2. PASSWORDLESS CONNECTIONS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_passwordless_connections"></a>2. PASSWORDLESS CONNECTIONS</h2></div></div></div><p>It is recommended to run cdist with public key authentication.
This requires a private/public key pair and the entry
"PermitRootLogin without-password" in the sshd server.
See sshd_config(5) and ssh-keygen(1).</p></div><div class="section" title="3. SPEEDING UP SSH CONNECTIONS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_speeding_up_ssh_connections"></a>3. SPEEDING UP SSH CONNECTIONS</h2></div></div></div><p>When connecting to a new host, the initial delay with ssh connections
is pretty big. You can work around this by
"sharing of multiple sessions over a single network connection"
(quote from ssh_config(5)). The following code is suitable for
inclusion into your ~/.ssh/config:</p><pre class="screen">Host *
ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%l-%r@%h:%p
ControlMaster auto
ControlPersist 10</pre></div><div class="section" title="4. MULTI MASTER OR ENVIRONMENT SETUPS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_multi_master_or_environment_setups"></a>4. MULTI MASTER OR ENVIRONMENT SETUPS</h2></div></div></div><p>If you plan to distribute cdist among servers or use different
environments, you can do so easily with the included version
control git. For instance if you plan to use the typical three
environments production, integration and development, you can
realise this with git branches:</p><pre class="screen"># Go to cdist checkout
cd /path/to/cdist
# Create branches
git branch development
git branch integration
git branch production
# Make use of a branch, for instance production
git checkout production</pre><p>Similar if you want to have cdist checked out at multiple machines,
you can clone it multiple times:</p><pre class="screen">machine-a % git clone git://your-git-server/cdist
machine-b % git clone git://your-git-server/cdist</pre></div><div class="section" title="5. SEPERATING WORK BY GROUPS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_seperating_work_by_groups"></a>5. SEPERATING WORK BY GROUPS</h2></div></div></div><p>If you are working with different groups on one cdist-configuration,
you can delegate to other manifests and have the groups edit only
their manifests. You can use the following snippet in
<span class="strong"><strong>conf/manifests/init</strong></span>:</p><pre class="screen"># Include other groups
sh -e "$__manifest/systems"
sh -e "$__manifest/cbrg"</pre></div><div class="section" title="6. MAINTAINING MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_maintaining_multiple_configurations"></a>6. MAINTAINING MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS</h2></div></div></div><p>When you need to manage multiple sites with cdist, like company_a, company_b
and private for instance, you can easily use git for this purpose.
Including a possible common base that is reused accross the different sites:</p><pre class="screen"># create branches
git branch company_a company_b common private
# make stuff for company a
git checkout company_a
# work, commit, etc.
# make stuff for company b
git checkout company_b
# work, commit, etc.
# make stuff relevant for all sites
git checkout common
# work, commit, etc.
# change to private and include latest common stuff
git checkout private
git merge common</pre><p>Have a look at git-remote(1) to adjust the remote configuration, which allows
you to push certain branches to certain remotes.</p></div><div class="section" title="7. SEE ALSO"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_see_also"></a>7. SEE ALSO</h2></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem">
cdist(7)
</li></ul></div></div><div class="section" title="8. COPYING"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_copying"></a>8. COPYING</h2></div></div></div><p>Copyright (C) 2011 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is
granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).</p></div></div></body></html>