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by txutxu
3859 days ago
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From the sysadmin viewpoint, /var is managed through "retention" (scheduled rotation, scheduled flushing, logrotate, crons, etc), and "backups" where needed. Configuration Management may help to set non default permissions under /var/ paths, or to check for default permissions status, or prepare business logic automated actions over that variable data. |
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Right. And 'Docker for /var' would be something that made all that easier. It would make it really easy to set up live, secure, restorable, backups of essential data; to rotate, compress, and delete logs; to extract all important logs to a separate host, and aggregate and index them, etc. At the moment, a configuration management tool can help you set this up, but you still have to write the configuration management script by hand.