On 7/7/2011 1:37 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 07 July 2011 11:23:15 kashani did opine thusly:
On 7/2/2011 3:14 PM, Grant wrote:
After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've
decided to stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the
number of Gentoo systems I'm responsible for and they're
nearing double-digits. What can be done to make the management
of multiple Gentoo systems easier? I think identical hardware
in each system would help a lot but I'm not sure that's
practical. I need to put together a bunch of new workstations
and I'm thinking some sort of server/client arrangement with
the only Gentoo install being on the server could be
appropriate.
- Grant
You may want to look at something like a config management
system.
I'm using Puppet these days, but Gentoo support isn't spectacular.
It would be a bit complex to have Puppet install the packages with
the correct USE flags. However you could use Puppet to manage all
the text files and then manage the packages somewhat manually.
Give chef a try.
It overcomes a lot of the issue puppet ran into, and of course makes
new ones all of it's won, but by and large chef is more flexible.
Too late. I've already put a year in with Puppet and have too much
working code to switch. Also I'm not much of a programmer so I get a bit
more out of the DSL though my templates are getting fairly fancy these
days. For anyone else interested in what we're talking about, here's a
fairly balanced and up to date link talking about some of the differences.
http://redbluemagenta.com/2011/05/21/puppet-vs-chef/
kashani
