Shared Node-RED Project Across Multiple RPi's

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I'm not super savvy with Git & GitHub yet (learning, slowly but surely) and I've been playing with Node-RED projects for the past few days learning how to get projects setup and linked to a GitHub repository from my various Pi's.

I'm looking for help to understand how to best transition several Pi's that are already currently running Node-RED with the same flows in a production environment and get them all setup equivalently using Node-RED projects, all linked to the same GitHub repository? One of them is already setup using Node-RED projects and linked to a GitHub repository.

I am wanting to get to a place where if tweaks and changes are made on any one of the Pi's it will be easy to push/pull code to/from GitHub to keep them all in sync.

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Depending on the number of devices you need to manage I suggest you check Balena: https://www.balena.io
It pretty much solves the issue of "Push once. update many"

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Thanks for the info. Balena certainly looks like it would do the trick but it is also more than I need or want. I'm only managing a handful of devices specific to an in-house manufacturing process... so I'm trying to keep it simple without adding other various services.

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Ansible would be another possibility, you could not only use it for updating the flows across the network but also for setting up the Pis in the first place.

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