Can anyone chime in on using enterprise mass systems configuration and
management tools?
What are you using? Chef, Puppet or CFEngine and why?
I have configured Chef, and setup and demonstrated puppet for specific
unique tasks (hackfest configuration and password files), both ruby based.
I see t
I am also looking at implementing one of these at some point in the near
future. The standard scripts over ssh is simple and relatively well
controlled, but teaching new people how to use them and maintaining them in
a sane fashion is troublesome. I've used a few HP, Dell, Sun, and IBM
config pro
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:59 PM, James Mcphee wrote:
> I am also looking at implementing one of these at some point in the near
> future. The standard scripts over ssh is simple and relatively well
> controlled, but teaching new people how to use them and maintaining them in
> a sane fashion is tr
Personal opinion - for large scale use with many people maintaining
different sections puppet is one of the best - however it is really
only good for file management. Since nearly everything on a linux
system is a file, this should not be a problem. As for user management
- I am still under the opi
Thanks to all who responded.
I believe this is an excellent subject for a blog after about 10,000 lab
testing package comparison hours!
Laugh!
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Bryan O'Neal <
bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> Personal opinion - for large scale use with many people mai
We currently use puppet. We have used it for quite some time, and just
revisited our configuration management system, to see if it was still the
right way to go.
In looking at Chef, CFEngine and Puppet, we decided to stick with Puppet.
The cost of changing over a number of extremely complex syst
At my work, we use AD for access across all our Windows and Linux servers.
Then we use puppet to manage consistent permissions on the /etc/sudoers
file, auto_home, and ssh access.
This combination works great!!!
On Nov 9, 2011 4:24 PM, "Dan Dubovik" wrote:
> We currently use puppet. We have use
I'm glad to see this discussion because I was just starting to research
using Puppet or Chef to help manage a new web server environment I helped
to build. I've not used either before. We have a small number of servers so
far and scripts are fine for now but using one of these tools would make my
l
Has anyone had any experience using Puppet to manage read-only root /
diskless clients? RedHat / CentOS used to have a utility to do this
(system-config-notboot), but it has been deprecated as of 6.0. Reading
through 5.7's rc.sysinit, it makes references to moving towards using
Puppet to manage t
