Hi Troels, We have been using system configuration management systems for a long time. At first obviously we had in house system configuration scripts (rsync,make,m4). We found that when we hired new people it took them a very long time to figure out what was really going on in our management framework. Additionally it took a very long time to integrate a new OS into the system. So we moved into the world of Cfengine but in reality it never totally replaced our old management system. This was because it didn't have a good way to use template/macroing of files. So for awhile we lived in a dual system configuration management which was obviously worse then just one.
Finally we made the decision to find something that met all our needs. Puppet offered all of this so about now 9 months ago we made the switch of all our systems into it. We continue to write more and more modules to take more advantage of puppet so it continues to be the gift that keeps giving. There are other options to consider like Chef[1] and Bcfg[2] however they were really underdeveloped or didn't really meet our needs. [1] - http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home [2] - http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2 Thanks, derek On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Troels Arvin wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to ditch my post-installation script (for server > installations) which is becoming too complex. And I would like to move to > a systems configuration management system where configuration is written > down in plain-text files, so that it may be put in our version control > system. > > I have read about a lot of system configuration tools, such as Puppet and > cfengine, and they both sound interesting. Now I need to hear from people > with first-hand experience: Does someone here happen to have experience > with at least two system configuration systems? Which were they, and which > did you prefer and why? > > By the way: The requirement for text-based configuration means that I can > forget Satellite Server / Spacewalk, right? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Regards, > Troels Arvin <[email protected]> > http://troels.arvin.dk/ > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > Derek Yarnell UNIX Systems Administrator University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
