Not the simplest way of doing this, but ansible might be an option. IMO the advantage is being able to customize the configuration file depending on the host OS

Not the simplest way of doing this, but ansible might be an option. IMO the advantage is being able to customize the configuration file depending on the host OS, IP address, attached filesystem, etc. This is useful because sometimes you want to use the same configuration file on different systems and they usually need some customizations to adapt to each one, which can be done automatically by ansible based on jinja2 templates.