Hi, I must agree here with Ohad. I have been using Puppet in my last 3 projects at 3 different customers. I do consider Puppet as a provisioning service, as I can provision with it practically everything: 1. Configuration files 2. Packages (rpms / debs / solaris pkgs) 3. UNIX accounts (users / passwords / groups) 4. Everything you can just imagine. It is highly customizable and very robust (gee.. what a bunch of buzz words, but i do agree with them here). With every project I have deployed I learned new features of puppet and developed a bigger appreciation for the product.
Regarding the kickstart part, Cobbler is a nice tool, which I can also recommend, but personally I just prefer "vanilla" kickstart, as I have better control over it (atleast, that's how I feel) and I already have a template ks.cfg profile and post install script which I carry with me from one place to another. Once I get to the post install scripts, I deploy a puppet client, and let it do the rest of the job. - Noam On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Ohad Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Checkout Cobbler. > > Puppet is a great tool, you might want to use it if you manage a lot of > servers... > > Ohad > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Ira Abramov < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 31 Mar: > > > poppet > > > > Thanks. Took me 5 minutes to discover it's spelled Puppet, and 20 more > > of reading through all the FAQs and manuals to realize it does > > management, not provisioning. > > > > I'll make it clearer: I'm looking for a product that will allow me to > > remote-install blades and tower machines via PXE from a smart kickstart > > or other type of image server. Management after provisioning is a bonus, > > not a must. > > > > Thanks, > > Ira. > > > > -- > > Gzunda the desk > > Ira Abramov > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
