Ok a better way to word this can puppet allow us to isolate down the environment so that dev can make changes to their own environment but not QA, Prod etc.
I am struggling with comparing these products because I don't think any one of them really does a good job of explaining what they do or how they go about doing it. On Dec 8, 1:16 pm, Luke <lutay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks guys. > > I should have pointed out that the developers do have builds mostly > automated using ant we were just wondering we could have a solution > that we could all use to try to standardize things. So I take it that > we should probably just stick with that and perhaps look to puppet for > our server builds? > > On Dec 7, 6:29 pm, Jon Davis <j...@snowulf.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:22, Luke <lutay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > to automate our complex server builds > > > Well, that's Puppets core skill. > > > > and web app deployments but will assist our devs with getting their builds > > > ready to deploy > > > Depends on how you deploy your webapps and your builds, it could, but it > > might not be the best solution. I use puppet to run my web servers, but I > > use it in more of an "Apache, create websites X, Y & Z" fashion. Part of > > that process does create all the requisite folders and setup an rsync from > > the "web master" share to all the web servers. So, in effect puppet is > > controlling it all, but really it is up to the devs to not screw up > > deploying their code to the share. > > > > . Monitoring, integration of > > > Tomcat, mysql etc would be nice as well since configuring nagios is a > > > pain. > > > Integrating Nagios has been done before, so you shouldn't have trouble > > finding examples. But Puppet isn't going to "monitor" itself, of course. > > > Can puppet do all of these things? Does it sound right for us? > > > > We are also considering CFengine and Chef. Would puppet be a better > > > fit over these two? If so why? > > > I think all 3 options are fairly similar (I just recently went digging for > > automation tools myself, and settled on Puppet). Each one has their > > strengths and weaknesses. > > > -- > > Jon > > [[User:ShakataGaNai]] / > > KJ6FNQhttp://snowulf.com/http://www.linkedin.com/in/shakataganai<http://twitter.com/shakataganai> -- 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.
