Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-13 Thread Dan White
Thank you, Peter. This is the type of response I wanted. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) - Peter Meier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash:

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-13 Thread Dan White
Thank you, Ohad. This is the sort of info I am looking for. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) - Ohad Levy wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Dan White

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-13 Thread Peter Meier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/2011 05:26 PM, Dan White wrote: > This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell > me WHY. > > Their reasons may not apply to my situation. > > I am not trying to be difficult, but I find that I cannot accept an > opinio

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-12 Thread Ohad Levy
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Dan White wrote: > This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell me WHY. > > Their reasons may not apply to my situation. > > I am not trying to be difficult, but I find that I cannot accept an opinion > on a technical issue without technical

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-12 Thread Denmat
Okay I'll have a stab at some differences for you and some similarities. Cobbler is written in python and foreman in ruby like puppet. They each do a similar kind of thing with a similar tool set; dns, pxe, dhcp. Each have a gui. Cobbler only recently included debian support in their main line a

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-12 Thread Ohad Levy
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Scott Smith wrote: > Doesn't the Foreman use Cobbler for managing PXE and Kickstart? not at all. Ohad > > -scott > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Dan White wrote: > >> This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell me >> WHY. >> >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-12 Thread Scott Smith
Doesn't the Foreman use Cobbler for managing PXE and Kickstart? -scott On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Dan White wrote: > This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell me WHY. > > Their reasons may not apply to my situation. > > I am not trying to be difficult, but I find

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-12 Thread Dan White
This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell me WHY. Their reasons may not apply to my situation. I am not trying to be difficult, but I find that I cannot accept an opinion on a technical issue without technical information to back it up. Also, this is for my job, so I

[Puppet Users] Re: A Question about mixing Puppet with other things

2011-07-12 Thread Brian
On Jul 7, 2:47 pm, Dan White wrote: > In "Pro Linux System Administration" Mr. Turnbull discusses Cobbler and Puppet > In "Pro Puppet" he discusses Foreman and Puppet. > > Would anyone out there be willing and able to talk about the differences > between Cobbler and Foreman as they relate to Pu