Hi Simon, On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Simon Strange wrote: > I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm > interested in using puppet to control it. > > In the past I've used CFEngine with success, so perhaps I should stick > to what I know. But it does seem that puppet offers a few nice > things, and is the new-cool. The only obvious problem is that > documentation is harder to find.
Yeah. > Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share? I use puppet on around 20 machines (some real, some virtual). I use it to provision my machines after they are installed from a template image. I never learned cfengine so it was an easier choice. If I knew cfengine to begin with I probably would have stuck with that though, and I might still advise that since most cfengine users seem happy with it. At a former dayjob we tried to introduce puppet, but it was a steep learning curve and in the end existing cfengine knowledge won out. I believe there was a hantslug presentation about puppet a while back, sadly I was unable to attend and don't remember who gave it. Perhaps it's on the wiki? Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "[Open Source is] like trying to sell human rights to China because it might lead to more effective business models." -- David Kastrup
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