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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by wvenable on Monday March 04, 2013 @12:27AM (#5316818)
Is there a free and recommended configuration management system that does all this?
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by shizcakes on Monday March 04, 2013 @12:35AM (#5316845)
Chef or Puppet are common choices. There are many others, but those two are modern, have large communities, and decent documentation. There's a decent chance someone has already open sourced a cookbook/module for each of many of these items!
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by grey-area on Monday March 04, 2013 @01:57AM (#5317047)
On linode, which he is using, there is one built in - they allow shell scripts to run on first boot which could replay his commands as they are without many changes:

http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by plusbryan on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:50AM (#5318410)
Yes, stackscripts are a great way to take advantage of automation. :-)
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by davidbanham on Monday March 04, 2013 @12:34AM (#5316840)
We use Chef, many people run Puppet.

http://www.opscode.com/chef/

https://puppetlabs.com/

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by chrisbolt on Monday March 04, 2013 @12:35AM (#5316842)
Puppet, chef, cfengine, ansible, and salt are a few.
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by elktea on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:08AM (#5317379)
Salt is wonderful.
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by plasticgun on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @03:27AM (#5323546)
I just ready your post out of context. Made me chuckle.
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by cschneid on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @09:27AM (#5324616)
No, chef/puppet/etc are configuration management tools. They automate the manual typing of server setup commands, and then verify that the system stays that way.

They are not security tools. So you're on your own on what to actually tell the tools to do. "Install chef" is not a security tip. It's a repeatability tip, so you can get your system up to a known state repeatedly.

For the security side of things, you're back to figuring out what the right steps are, no matter how they're installed.

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by buster on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:13AM (#5317400)
Voting for Ansible or Puppet here.

http://ansible.cc/

https://puppetlabs.com/

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by Axsuul on Monday March 04, 2013 @01:09AM (#5316935)
Highly recommend Chef due to its Ruby DSL.
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by chookrl on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:45AM (#5317492)
I recommend Chef - http://www.opscode.com/chef/
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