> Regardless of if puppet is intended to manage multiple similar hosts, it is > still useful when you have a smaller number of unique hosts. > > If every host is completely unique then you get one some benefits of puppet: > * you have a single place to review your configuration > * you can make changes without having to do it by hand > * puppet checks nothing has changed, and puts it back if something has > > However, I bet that all your hosts are a *lot* more alike than you think: > * you probably use the same web server (apache, or so), and *mostly* have it > set up the same way on each machine, right? > * you probably use the same MTA on most machines > * you probably use the same log watching and checking stuff on 'em all > * you probably have similar needs for installing PHP and some extra PHP > modules, which are usually configured more or less the same.[1] > * you probably do a bunch of "install mysql, configure like this" stuff the > same on each host. >
You forgot a biggy bonus of puppet, no matter what size you support. I have several small ( as in 1-3) groups of very different machines, and with puppet I can rebuild them very quickly on when they need to be replaced or upgraded. doing it by hand takes most of a day or 2. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
