I guess it all depends on how often you bootstrap a new server. If you do it infrequently, keeping a configuration management tool updated is probably more work

I guess it all depends on how often you bootstrap a new server. If you do it infrequently, keeping a configuration management tool updated is probably more work. I do it perhaps every two years and keep a similar list (I try to keep up to date if I change something in the server configuration) for that purpose.