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Re:Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere by icebraining on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:42PM (#9065644)
An alternative to typical configuration management (puppet, ansible, etc) is making your own OS installer. I've adapted the Ubuntu installer to turn a blank machine into a running instance of our app in just a couple of days. The client just has to pop-in the CD or flash drive, answer a couple of questions, and go grab a cup of tea while it installs.
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Re:Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere by warrenm on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:45PM (#9065662)
>in just a couple of days

Days?! That is a crazy-long deploy time.

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Re:Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere by icebraining on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:46PM (#9065673)
No, I meant it took me a couple of days to make the installer :-)
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Re:Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere by jamiesonbecker on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @11:22PM (#9066975)
.. here I thought you were talking about the normal speed of cloudformation to boot up EC2 instances..
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Re:Duplicate SSH Keys Everywhere by icebraining on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @03:54AM (#9067597)
You jest, but our previous "cloud" provider (which we used in 2012/13) took more than that to provision a bog standard Linux VPS - and they often got the distro wrong!
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