A Configuration Repository idea

January 2008


Table of Contents

Introduction
What is configuration?
What is not configuration?
Storing Configuration and the Unit of Configuration
Parametrization and its implications

A systems administrator produces configurations, of computers and related devices, and of groups of these. The configurations I produce are often interrelated, and sometimes differ only minimally between different installations. They are most often a mixture of copied and written material, and parts of it may be generated. I would like to have a way of storing them, and a way of efectively re-using configuration I created in the past.