James Rodenkirch

I’ve been playing around with the idea of using debian packages to deploy updates to various servers (virtual machines, dev servers, production servers etc). I was curious to see how this could work for a variety of tasks, but mostly I needed a way to help keep our development virtual machine up to date without physically maintaining a virtual disc that all developers use. Because we each modify the vm to fit in our specific environment, the need to enforce the existence of *packages* and not specific *configuration* is paramount – this turned out to be a godsend for us.
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