Rob Spieldenner's questions

My servers exist in an environment without outside network connectivity (this is a requirement), so when I deploy updates all packages, binaries, config files, etc. must be included on the delivered media. And of course I want some sort of configuration management so I can tell what has and hasn't been installed.

So I was wondering if people had experience with chef, puppet, or another configuration management type tool for dealing with this type of environment. Worst case I deploy my updates as an RPM.

EDIT:

My setup has both Linux servers and Windows servers.

What I'm trying to do is loop over environment variables. I have a number of installs that change and each install has 3 IPs to push files to and run scripts on, and I want to automate this as much as possible (so that I only have to modify a file that I'll source with the environment variables). The following is a simplified version that once I figure out I can solve my problem.

So given in my.props:

COUNT=2
A_0=foo
B_0=bar
A_1=fizz
B_1=buzz

I want to fill in the for loop in the following script

#!/bin/bash
. <path>/my.props

for ((i=0; i < COUNT; i++))
do
  <script here>
done

So that I can get the values from the environment variables. Like the following(but that actually work):

echo $A_$i $B_$i

or

A=A_$i
B=B_$i
echo $A $B

returns foo bar then fizz buzz