Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Edward Capriolo wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: Let me kick it off with not everything fits every environment, your millage may vary. RPMs are not actually that bad for getting stuff out, especially if you can do PXE/kickstart stuff and bring up machines from

Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-10 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: > Edward Capriolo wrote: > system to ignore this file. >> >> So now that I am done complaining, what do I think should do? >> >> 1 clearly document your install process >> 2 make you install process fully script-table >> --or-- >> 3 role your

Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-10 Thread John Martyniak
Steve, Rollings RPMs seems like a pain, especially since you can do a lot of the install stuff using yum (CentOS). After looking at the CFM tools, I think that I am going to just write some scripts that will do the loading, because in the end I just need to push config changes. And will

Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Edward Capriolo wrote: system to ignore this file. So now that I am done complaining, what do I think should do? 1 clearly document your install process 2 make you install process fully script-table --or-- 3 role your own rpms (or debs, tar etc) for everything not in someone else RPM 4 run 1 ni

Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-09 Thread paul
If your distro is Redhat based, you may also want to consider a system like Spacewalk: http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/ We've found it very useful in our environment for a lot of purposes. -paul On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM, John Martyniak wrote: > Tha

Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-09 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM, John Martyniak wrote: > That was my thinking as well, but wanted to see if anybody had strong > opinions one way or the other. > > I was leaning towards Puppet, it seems pretty solid, and seems to support > everything that is necessary. > > -John > > On Dec 9, 2009,

Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-09 Thread John Martyniak
That was my thinking as well, but wanted to see if anybody had strong opinions one way or the other. I was leaning towards Puppet, it seems pretty solid, and seems to support everything that is necessary. -John On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: On 12/9/09 11:00 AM, "

Re: Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-09 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On 12/9/09 11:00 AM, "John Martyniak" wrote: > Does anybody have any recommmendations on a CF management app? The > ones that I am looking at are Puppet, CFengine, and BCFG2. > > Thanks for the recommendation in advance. Each have their pros/cons. It is more important to at least use one v

Best CFM Engine for Hadoop

2009-12-09 Thread John Martyniak
Does anybody have any recommmendations on a CF management app? The ones that I am looking at are Puppet, CFengine, and BCFG2. Thanks for the recommendation in advance. -John