Now that we are implementing more Linux systems, I’m noticing some of the pain points of keeping certain things in sync. A big annoyance, for example, is keeping our infrastructure and users’ SSH keys in sync across all of our machines. There are several methods currently available, but I had issues with each. I’ve listed the two main methods below. Via Configuration Management A very DevOpsy way of tackling the problem would be to us a configuration management system like Chef to keep the files updated.