[olug] Watching installs to reproduce/replicate later.

Christopher Cashell topher-olug at zyp.org
Thu Feb 12 19:33:47 CST 2015


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On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> Many years ago on Windows there was a tool I could use to take a snapshot
> of a computer, then I could install programs, edit files, update the
> registry, reboot, etc, and the next time I ran that snapshot tool it would
> save a file that summarized all the changes performed.  From there it was
> possible to replicate that install to other compatible Windows systems by
> "replaying" that summary file.
>
> Can anyone point me to a similar tool on the Linux side (RHEL/CentOS)?
>

​Sounds like a potential use case for Docker. ;-)​


> DanL
>

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Christopher


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