Sharing setup and script between machines

[kjetilk]

So, I'm sure there is a pretty standard solution for this, since it is common in large office environments, but my google-fu is failing me.

The situation is simple: I have a few boxes in a relatively homogeneous enviroment, mostly Debian Stretch, but I have Mint install and a MythBuntu box, but I'd like a few things to behave the same on all and have a single point to update. That is, it'll be a few scripts, the emacs setup, the bash profile, etc.

I've been thinking that I put it on my fileserver as a separate share (possibly rsyncing to the laptop and the DMZ), and add a simple script to add the share to

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$PATH

in

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/etc/profile.d/

, and similarly create a

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/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el

, or something like that.

Does this sound reasonable?

[cronoik]

Have you already considered a config management system like salt [1] or all the others (Ansible, Puppet, Chef...) where I'm not aware of the features.

[1] https://saltstack.com/

[kjetilk]

Many thanks for the quick reply!

I have to admit that I haven't considered them, but they sound like massive overkill. I'm the only real user, though the rest of the family may benefit somewhat...