Okay I'll have a stab at some differences for you and some similarities. Cobbler is written in python and foreman in ruby like puppet. They each do a similar kind of thing with a similar tool set; dns, pxe, dhcp. Each have a gui.
Cobbler only recently included debian support in their main line and has only been good for RH hosts whereas foreman has had it released for awhile and can build RH deb and solaris nodes. Each use preseed,or kickstart templates. Cobbler has a good set of features and has func and koan as sister apps which are good. Foreman has had a tighter integration with puppet. I use cobbler but will most likely replacing that with foreman once I get time to migrate all my python snippets (which use the cheetah templating engine). That's all I can think of right now. Cheers, Den On 13/07/2011, at 1:26, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote: > This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell me WHY. > > Their reasons may not apply to my situation. > > I am not trying to be difficult, but I find that I cannot accept an opinion > on a technical issue without technical information to back it up. Also, this > is for my job, so I need to be able to justify my decision with more than > "The folks on the puppet mailing list told me to do it this way". > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in > the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > ----- Brian <b...@uga.edu> wrote: >> >> >> On Jul 7, 2:47 pm, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> In "Pro Linux System Administration" Mr. Turnbull discusses Cobbler and >>> Puppet >>> In "Pro Puppet" he discusses Foreman and Puppet. >>> >>> Would anyone out there be willing and able to talk about the differences >>> between Cobbler and Foreman as they relate to Puppet and what factors I >>> should consider in choosing one of them ? >> >> Red Hat is using Foreman in CloudForms System Engine, their successor >> to Satellite. I'd take this as a strong vote of confidence in Foreman. >> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-July/msg00019.html >> >> All the best, >> Brian >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
