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NixOS is awesome for stuff like this. Very easy to define your own "base image" and layer whatever you want on top of it. Binary packages by default, but you ca
by Nullabillity 10y ago
NixOS is awesome for stuff like this. Very easy to define your own "base image" and layer whatever you want on top of it. Binary packages by default, but you can override the compilation flags for any any package, Gentoo-style. Configuration files are also packages, which frees you from the cruft that systems like Chef or Puppet tend to accumulate.
Oh, and NixOps is awesome for managing multiple machines. And it can automagically set up VMs corresponding to your production network.
SUSE Studio has a nice GUI and is easy to get started with, but AFAIK it doesn't have a nice story for configuration management, or managing the systems after they've been deployed.