Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Rob McEwen wrote: Personally, I prefer paying a little extra for my own dedicated and/or co-located servers... where I'm in total control of ALL aspects of hardware/software. You are resisting the lure back to the mainframe paradime [sic], let go of your resistance and let yourself be gently

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-08 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 6/7/12 20:53 , Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as i know it when I see it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio a case which is notable in this context for having four differing majority opinions. On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:00 AM,

RE: Configuration Systems

2012-06-08 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 07 June, 2012 12:52, Owen DeLong observed: This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define Cloud, you will get at least 100 definitions many of which are incompatible to the point of mutually exclusive. That

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-08 Thread Rob McEwen
On 6/8/2012 10:44 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote: That is *the* definition of Cloud. The term Cloud is a proxy for the expression under the exclusive control of a third-party over which we have no influence nor control in order to gain plausibile denibility and CYA ptotection if something bad

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread Owen DeLong
talking with some folks from various industries about configuration systems ala Bcfg2, Puppet, Chef, and others. Many of them care far too much about the current nodes configuration status as some admin had logged in and changed something. I am authoring a system called Enablement that uses what

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0700, Owen DeLong said: This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define Cloud, you will get at least 100 definitions many of which are incompatible to the point of mutually exclusive. cloud

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 7, 2012, at 2:49 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0700, Owen DeLong said: This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define Cloud, you will get at least 100 definitions many of

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Graydon
On 06/07/2012 11:49 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0700, Owen DeLong said: This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define Cloud, you will get at least 100 definitions many of which are

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:12:09 -1000, Paul Graydon said: what cloud is you've also got to go into the realms of private clouds (using, for example, openstack), on your own infrastructure in your own datacenter. Same definition. The user I've provisioned still has no idea where I provisioned

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Graydon
On 06/07/2012 12:59 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:12:09 -1000, Paul Graydon said: what cloud is you've also got to go into the realms of private clouds (using, for example, openstack), on your own infrastructure in your own datacenter. Same definition. The user

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as i know it when I see it On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Paul Graydon p...@paulgraydon.co.uk wrote: Your original definition: cloud == you rented a colo, but have no clue where.  I know exactly where my colo is.  I know exactly where my

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread Owen DeLong
By my count, we now have 3 engineers that have chimed in and somewhere between 5 and 6 definitions. Q.E. D. Owen On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as i know it when I see it On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Paul

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-07 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:30:53 -1000, Paul Graydon said: Your original definition: cloud == you rented a colo, but have no clue where. I know exactly where my colo is. I know exactly where my physical servers are. If I run a private cloud on those servers and provision stuff there, I'll

Configuration Systems

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Latham
Lurker speaking... beware... I have been talking with some folks from various industries about configuration systems ala Bcfg2, Puppet, Chef, and others. Many of them care far too much about the current nodes configuration status as some admin had logged in and changed something. I am authoring

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-06 Thread Andrew Latham
configuration systems ala Bcfg2, Puppet, Chef, and others.  Many of them care far too much about the current nodes configuration status as some admin had logged in and changed something.  I am authoring a system called Enablement that uses what ever technology needed (ssh, telnet over admin vlan