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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by ceejayoz on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:06AM (#5318496)
Isn't the point of Chef/Puppet that you never do that, and if you do, they get reverted automatically?
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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by beagle3 on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:31AM (#5318629)
It is the point that you "never do that". However, it's been my experience that e.g. when troubleshooting, people always make local modifications, and don't always remember to revert them / restore from configuration management.

I have no experience with chef/puppet, so I might be mistaken, but I'm under the impression that they only push changes when asked to - which means a local change may survive for several weeks before it is overwritten. But I could be wrong about that.

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by pindi on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:21AM (#5318897)
When run in client-server mode, Puppet will run every 30 minutes by default, overwriting local changes with the configuration on the server.
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