At my work, we use Rocks (http://www.rocksclusters.org), but it's targeted mostly toward HPC labs, where there's not a lot of variation in roles/services that the nodes fulfill and use.
Alternatives in our specific niche are Warewulf (http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac), and Bright Cluster Manager (commercial). Possibly others, but those are the ones that come to mind. Not sure if this is terribly helpful, since you're probably going to need more variation between types of servers than this. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 01/05/2016 10:31 AM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > I am curious what other people use to automate the deployment and > provisioning of new hosts. In other words, what tools are you using to > launch a new server (dedicated, vps, cloud), provision it with the services > and applications that you need, add it to the proxy rotation and DNS, and > then update it or remove it when needed? > > Currently I am using fabric scripts and Jenkins. > > I have been looking at Ansible (http://www.ansible.com/) and Terraform ( > https://www.terraform.io/) to take my automation to a higher level. > > I have in the past used AWS and many of their services. They have good > stuff, but they are pricey. > > What are you using? > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
