Up until now I automated all the management of eXo Forge services using classical shell scripts shared and stored in a SCM (Subversion) .
Even if it is working very well it has various limitations especially in term of maintenance.
Nowadays we can find various server configuration management (CM) tools to ease this maintenance and the management of servers.
I won’t give you a fully detailed guide around these tools as there are already a lot of articles and documentations about them but I will try to give you an overview and a quick startup guide to play with them and to become a good DevOps citizen.
As it is often better and quicker to learn from others I would like to thanks two DevOps Masters that helped and inspired the poor padawan I am : Henri Gomez, Carlos Sanchez and R. Tyler Croy.

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