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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">This</span><span style="color:windowtext"> works perfectly and fits into our deployment model.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"> Nicolas Charles <nicolas.charles@normation.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 22 November 2018 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Waldo Delport <waldod@pqfgroup.co.za>; rudder-users@lists.rudder-project.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [rudder-users] Move Rules/Directives and Techniques between Servers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Hi Waldo,<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>You have several approaches for synchronizing different Rudder environments. The most commonly used rely on the underlying git which archive all configurations (in /var/rudder/configuration-repository). Options are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Set all the configurations in the Dev environment only, and force synchronize it to the QA and Prod environments: with this approach, you have 3 Rudder Servers, *in exactly the same version*, and prohibit any changes of configuration in QA & Prod. When you
are happy with configuration in Dev environment, you manually promote it through git to the QA server, and load the configuration from git (like in
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The main issue with this approach is that you can't do changes in QA or Prod, and when you want to promote configurations to QA, you need to make sure that nobody are doing any changes on the Dev Rudder<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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Cherry pick the configuration from Dev to import them in QA. All modifications of Groups, Directives, Rules and Techniques are stored in git, they can be tracked, and you can pick them by importing them in the QA & Prod environment. This is a fine-grained approach.<o:p></o:p>
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Here, detecting possible dependencies can be tricky: you'll need to cherry-pick also Directives that are within a Rule for instance. But since it is in a "human-readable" (understand: XML) format, you can use diff, or even better meld to see differences.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p>You can also use the API (see documentation <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.rudder.io%2Fapi%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C415f8e5e49e24e85377408d650557d37%7C1a299edd93fc4ba89e575a9a07e1e978%7C0%7C1%7C636784725457109191&sdata=wiKPw4AY0SaVXMAJt%2Flp4W9um9oGV%2F9OYIRFrU0%2F2qY%3D&reserved=0">
https://docs.rudder.io/api/</a> ) to synchronize between environments - GET on the DEV, POST on the QA - which is probably the most convenient way to do.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Does it help you to see how to do it?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are planning to use Rudder and really like the tool. The problem we are experiencing is with multi-environment.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We want segregated dev, QA and prod environments. With this in mind we cannot have a single server serving all three enviroments, the configuration eends to follow the dev,qa and prod route. Where once tested on QA we can move it to prod.
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