What is IsiSetup?

IsiSetup is an utility for the system administrator. It helps you managing your configuration files:

• You can rollback changes.

• You can explore the history of changes.

• You can replicate your configuration.

• You can backup your configuration.

• You can blame changes to admins.

What's its use?

To configure dozens or hundreds of servers leads to some problems:

• Who did what, when?
• Deploy configuration changes to all concerned systems.
• Achieve and preserve consistency across hosts.
• Preserve customizations across software updates.
• Multi level customizations: client, site, network, host etc.
• Account management.

IsiSetup tries to give you tools to handle these problems.

How does it work?

Your configuration files are managed by a revision control tool, namely Git. IsiSetup gives you a command line interface that is especially designed to work with configuration files. While IsiSetup intends to be a complete interface, you may use Git or Cogito to do "low-level" work.

• IsiSetup uses a revision control tool to track your /etc

• IsiSetup hooks into APT to recognize changes introduced by packages

• IsiSetup provides a command line interface to organize and manage changes different conceptual layers

Read on

• IsiSetupTutorial: Howto setup and use IsiSetup

• IsiSetupDesign: Documents on how IsiSetup works

• IsiSetupRevisionControl: Article on using revision control for configuration files