Backing up your VM: Difference between revisions

Provisioning tools such as [https://www.ansible.com/ ansible], [https://puppet.com/ puppet], [https://www.chef.io/ chef], and [https://saltstack.com/ saltstack] can be used to automate setup and configuration of software and operating systems. Recreating your virtual machine then becomes a trivial matter given specification files. These specification files can be managed with version control tools like [https://git-scm.com/ git]. Provisioning tools can be combined with orchestration tools such as heat and terraform (see [Automating VM creation]) to automate the entire process of virtual machine creation and software configuration. Any data which is generated or created outside this automation would then need to be backed up likely using a [[#File backup| file backup]] method.