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I wonder how will a Git based client-side agent fit in. Why not use an already proven tech for the rollout, and then use custom installation scripts (also withi

I wonder how will a Git based client-side agent fit in. Why not use an already proven tech for the rollout, and then use custom installation scripts (also within the git repo) for doing software setup? The "server" here will just be normal git server, with commit ID serving as version number.

wmf 9y ago
That's addressed by the article. What about a management server, power/network loss, atomic updates, validation, etc? If you try to write custom installation scripts to do all that it's going to be a lot of work.