Poor man's Puppet implementation

I have 3 Linux users: soa, soa2 and soa3, and several hosts to manage which to copy files etc.

Simplest thing is to create a common shared folder with NFS or similar.

The alternative is to setup .ssh trust between all machines, and use a centralized place from which to ssh and scp stuff around. This script allows you to loop over all users and machines and perform any command:

getOptHome(){
 local user="$1"
 local path="opt"

 if [ "soa" == "$user"  ]; then
  optpath="opt"
 elif [ "soa2" == "$user" ]; then 
  optpath="opt2"
 elif [ "soa3" == "$user" ]; then 
  optpath="opt3"
 else 
  echo "User must be either soa, soa2 or soa3.  Exiting"
  exit 1
 fi
}

distributionListPPRD="acme103 acme105 acme106 acme112"
distributionListPROD="acme107 acme108 acme110 acme111"
usersList="soa soa2 soa3"

fileToCopy='showWebLogic.sh'

distributionList=$distributionListPPRD

for host in $distributionList
do

 for user in $usersList 
 do
  getOptHome "$user"
  ssh "$user"@"$host" mkdir -p /${optpath}/oracle/usr
  #scp $fileToCopy "$user"@"$host":/${optpath}/oracle/usr
 done

done