The alternative for spacewalk would be foreman, foreman can do linux provisioning (bare metal, docker, vms), and can do configurtion managment and reporting, as well as scalable and was built with the assumption of distributed data centers. in terms of configuration managment foreman uses currently puppet 3, and can be used with chef, and Ansible via plugins.
On 7 March 2016 at 00:01, <mamadou2che...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Dear yeayu, > > Perfect! You are right... > I waste my time to read many documentation over internet. > But, I think that I found the right interlocutors now. > Our infrastructure is based on virtualisation. > We have 85% Linux VMs and 15% Windows. > We already use an automation tool which is Bladelogic. > I have earlier done some comparison between Puppet and Bladelogic and > found that the last one is powerful than Puppet. > But we are oblige to change bladelogic for Group security raison. > They proposed us 3 software (Chef, spacewalk and Puppet) . > We have two distant Datacenter. > We want to continue our Deployment, automatic OS installation, dashboard, > Group VM creation and so one... > We have to take ownership on this automation tool and give limited right > to our partner. > > Best Regards ! > > Envoyé de mon smartphone BlackBerry 10. > *De: *yeayu > *Envoyé: *dimanche 6 mars 2016 19:47 > *À: *Puppet Users > *Cc: *tux...@gmail.com; mamadou2che...@yahoo.fr > *Objet: *Re: [Puppet Users] Help to find Automation tool > > Hello, > > Although we all probably suggest you to go for it, I think you should give > it some more thought... > > There are many other factors to consider: > - what's your environment like? all windows? 50% linux based? OS versions? > are they fully supported? > - how confident do you feel with puppet's DSL, powershell or other > scripting languages like ruby (this one for chef)? > - supportability, scalability, expandability, integration with external > tools (i.e. VMware)... > > Before making a final decision, I would get familiar with these tools, > perform some testing, review pros/cons according to your strategic vision > (what are you going to manage in the next 3/6/12/18 months?) ... and then > make up your mind. > > I hope this helps. > > Regards > > > > On Sunday, 6 March 2016 18:41:24 UTC, Mamadou CHERIF wrote: >> >> Dear Martin ! >> >> Great!!! >> Thanks you so much. >> I will come back if any issue regarding Puppet Deployment. >> >> Regards, >> >> Envoyé de mon smartphone BlackBerry 10. >> Message d'origine >> De: Martin Alfke >> Envoyé: dimanche 6 mars 2016 17:41 >> À: puppet...@googlegroups.com >> Cc: mamadou...@yahoo.fr >> Objet: Re: [Puppet Users] Help to find Automation tool >> >> Hi Mamadou, >> >> Puppet OpenSource also supports windows: >> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows/ >> >> Best, >> Martin >> >> On 06 Mar 2016, at 10:13, Mamadou CHERIF <mamadou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello Team, >> > >> > I am a noob on automation. >> > I should choose one tool between Puppet, CHEF and Spacewalk. >> > I have done some research on the web and i found that puppet is better. >> > But our company would like to use puppet opensource not enterprise >> version. >> > >> > I would like to know if puppet ope,source version supports WINDOWS. >> > >> > Thanks ! >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Puppet Users" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to puppet-users...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/516bb44b-166d-4897-ae2d-e87cfdd63e96%40googlegroups.com. >> >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20160306210115.8212559.8087.2071%40yahoo.fr > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20160306210115.8212559.8087.2071%40yahoo.fr?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAN4dctpEkW7tvwgYmY8irYt0BPui1KKEFSmk%3DUAqjNAnd0j7eA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
