I'm sure Luke is aware of this already but I've not seen this mentioned
on this list yet.
Red Hat's Emerging Technologies Group is working on something called Cft:
http://puppet.et.redhat.com/
This leverages puppet to attempt to do something we discussed in a
Workshop in Edinburgh a few years ago - reverse engineering what systems
admins do on the bare metal back into a site configuration
specification. It actually outputs the detected changes into puppet
manifest snippets that can then be integrated back into the puppet site
specification.
The whole thing starts to get really interesting when you look at the
architecture diagram lower down on the main Emerging Tech page:
http://et.redhat.com/page/Main_Page
The whole "specification of virtual machine instances" seems to be very
similar indeed to some of the work John (Sechrest) talked about at that
same workshop.
Anyone else tried this yet? What are your thoughts?
Carwyn
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