Keeping a history of what's been ran on the server

[ryanjones]

We recently had a problem where a staging box was out of sync with prod (the recipe had been forgotten to run on the prod box).

I wonder if there's a way we could keep track (on the server) what recipes have been ran. And a way where we could give and array of servers and check to see if they're running the same thing.

Thoughts?

/cc @jbabe @mm53bar @MarkBennett

[MarkBennett]

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[MarkBennett]

Perhaps we could have a log on boxes provisioned with plow that recorded
when plow is run? A more correct solution would probably be to record a
version for each plow recipe and then track the latest version of each
recipe run on each box so we could interrogate them in the future, but
there would be a lot of leg work to set that up.

I think this is why both Chef and Puppet focus on resource descriptions
rather than using script the way plow does. It's harder to setup but it
makes this kind of auditing possible.

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ryan Jones notifications@github.comwrote:

We recently had a problem where a staging box was out of sync with prod
(the recipe had been forgotten to run on the prod box).

I wonder if there's a way we could keep track (on the server) what recipes
have been ran. And a way where we could give and array of servers and check
to see if they're running the same thing.

Thoughts?

/cc @jbabe https://github.com/jbabe @mm53barhttps://github.com/mm53bar
@MarkBennett https://github.com/MarkBennett

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