Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool - Thanks

2016-05-18 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi all, thanks for your feedback! We will check in a test which tool might be good for us. Regards . Götz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Clint Dilks
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de> wrote: > Hi, > > we see a growing need for a better Configuration management for our > servers. > > Are there any known good resources for a comparison of e.g. Puppet, > Chef, Ansible etc? > > What

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 12 May 2016, Matt Garman wrote: The only other one I have any experience with is CFEngine. I tried---and I mean really tried---to get something going with CFEngine3. I just couldn't get my head around it. The wacky DSL it uses for expressing configs just wasn't intuitive to me; the

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/12/2016 12:22 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: Are there any known good resources for a comparison of e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc? https://bitbucket.org/gordonmessmer/config-comparison/overview I wrote one for my current employer, when I started, in order to get consensus

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Matt Garman
As others have said, in the end, it's a matter of personal preference (e.g. vim or emacs). You could spend a week reading articles and forum discussions comparing all the different tools; but until you've really used them, it will mostly be an academic exercise. Of course, the particulars of

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Fabian Arrotin
On 12/05/16 10:21, James Hogarth wrote: > On 12 May 2016 at 08:22, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < > goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we see a growing need for a better Configuration management for our >> servers. >> >> Are there any known good resources for a comparison of

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Hi, I've chosen ansible over the others for two particular reasons: - you can quickly dive into it. I think it's the easier to use at first being a complete beginner in config management tools. - no daemon server or client side. HTH, Laurent. Le 12 mai 2016 09:22:09 GMT+02:00, "Götz Reinicke -

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Tim Bell
Personally, I think it is important to try one in a prototype mode. There are many changes to how you operate systems as you bring in configuration management that any of the packages you propose should be an improvement over running scripts or hand configuration. We chose Puppet around 3

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Andrew Holway
> > What would you suggest and why? :) Ansible is now owned by Redhat so I would expect its feature set to be specifically aligned towards the administration of RHEL type operating systems over time. We've previously been using Saltstack to great effect but we are gently sliding towards

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread James Hogarth
On 12 May 2016 at 08:22, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de> wrote: > Hi, > > we see a growing need for a better Configuration management for our > servers. > > Are there any known good resources for a comparison of e.g. Puppet, > Chef, Ansible etc? > > What would you

[CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, we see a growing need for a better Configuration management for our servers. Are there any known good resources for a comparison of e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc? What would you suggest and why? :) Thanks and Regards . Götz ___ CentOS