[rancid] Simple web-frontend for rancid files?

[Eric W. Bates]

We have a copy of Gitlab CE which we use for a lot of git repositories. 
It's got a nice front end. So we do a git push from RANCiD to Gitlab 
every time RANCiD commits. I stole this idea from the book: "5 Unsung 
Tools of DevOps"

We already use ssh public key authentication on most of our switching 
gear; so the RANCiD user (rancid) already has keys set up. We added  an 
account for rancid on gitlab and added its public key for authentication.

- set up a repository on gitlab writable by your RANCiD user
- add the gitlab repository URL as a second remote so your remotes look 
something like:

# git remote -v
gitlab       git at gitlab.foobar.com:cns/RANCiD.git (fetch)
gitlab       git at gitlab.foobar.com:cns/RANCiD.git (push)
origin  /usr/local/rancid3/var/gitroot/cns (fetch)
origin  /usr/local/rancid3/var/gitroot/cns (push)

- add a post-commit hook to the repository on RANCiD such that it pushes 
to gitlab:

# cat .git/hooks/post-commit
#!/bin/sh
# this just pushes a copy of this repo to gitlab everytime there's a commit
/usr/bin/git push gitlab

It's a little elaborate, but we had Gitlab already.
I also want to add another git push to our Observium server.

On 10/9/18 2:22 PM, Gauthier, Chris wrote:
> I loved CVSweb in previous installations.  Now that I use Git for the 
> VCS, there really is no “nice” and simple implementation (like CVSweb 
> is).  I’m open to suggestions, as I do have to follow KISS for some of 
> my colleagues who are not Linux experts (nor should they necessarily 
> need to be).
> 
> --Chris
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> *Date: *Monday, October 8, 2018 at 3:16 PM
> *To: *"rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> *Subject: *[rancid] Simple web-frontend for rancid files?
> 
> I just installed rancid and found WebSVN to front-end it.   (About 5 
> years ago this is the setup I used, so it's what I'm sort of familiar 
> with.)   I have rancid working, but I need a better front-end.  WebSVN 
> is a little clunky (perhaps it's the way I've built it?) and doesn't 
> have a simple way to just download a file.  It does a good job of 
> displaying configs and comparing two versions.  But it I want to copy 
> the file locally, I'm copy and pasting...  It also appears to be a 
> dropped project, so it doesn't look like I should ever expect improvements.
> 
> Anything better out there?   I can switch over to git if there's a 
> better interface in that direction.   The front-end needs to be 
> web-based so that I can just point people to a URL.   It should have a 
> means to compare various revisions...   and of course a means to pull 
> the files down to your local system.   It doesn't need to support any 
> sort of push from client to repository since that's something that I 
> only want rancid doing...
> 
> Thought?   What are you all using?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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