Setting up Rancid so that it pushes config up into a Git repository. This way you have Rancid getting the config when it changes, and Git storing a history of those changes.

Install CentOS & update

# install pre-requisites
sudo yum install wget gcc perl tcl expect
#setup needed groups and users
sudo groupadd netadm
sudo useradd -g netadm -c "Networking Backups" -d /home/rancid rancid

#working directory to store source
sudo mkdir /home/rancid/tar

#download source and extract
sudo su
cd /home/rancid/tar
wget ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-3.9.tar.gz
tar -zxvf rancid-3.9.tar.gz

# configure/make and install
cd ./rancid-3.9
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rancid
make install

# copy template config and set file permissions
chmod 0640 /home/rancid/.cloginrc
chown -R rancid:netadm /home/rancid/.cloginrc
chown -R rancid:netadm /usr/local/rancid/
chmod 775 /usr/local/rancid/

Configure Git

1. yum install git
2. Modify /usr/local/rancid/etc/rancid.conf
3. Change RCSSYS=git
4. Save and close
5. Switch to rancid user su - rancid
6. Create SSH key ssh-keygen -o -t rsa -b 4096 -C "email@example.com"
7. Copy the key to insert into github/gitlab `vim ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub`
8. Setup Defaults

   1. git config --global user.name "Rancid" git config --global user.email "email@example.com"

9. Configure Rancid Groups
10. Build initial group folders `​/usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs`
11. Go to the device group folder cd /usr/local/rancid/var
12. For each Device group

13. cd {device group} git remote rename origin old-origin git remote add origin git@{git server}:{repo}/{git project}.git git push -u origin --all

14. Setup hook to push to the git server. In each device group
    1. Open the  post-commit hoof file

vim .git/hooks/post-commit

#!/bin/sh
# push the local repo to the remote server on commit
git push origin