Re: [Puppet Users] Re: White Paper: Migrating from Redhat satellite server to Puppet + Foreman

2013-06-26 Thread Keiran Sweet
Hey There, Sorry for the late reply on this, been a bit manic this end and am just catching up. To be honest, I don't disagree with you really on most of your points. In regards to the paper, this was that worked for this environment and there were some other factors behind the scenes (financial,

[Puppet Users] Re: White Paper: Migrating from Redhat satellite server to Puppet + Foreman

2013-06-13 Thread Chuck
You could also look at the Satellite 6 upsteam project Katello. http://www.katello.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...

[Puppet Users] Re: White Paper: Migrating from Redhat satellite server to Puppet + Foreman

2013-06-13 Thread Stephen Benjamin
Hi, Interesting paper. For full disclosure, I do work for Red Hat, so you know, I could be biased :) I agree about Puppet being miles ahead for configuration. For customers who can, I think they should rely on Puppet instead of Satellite for configuration, unless they have simple needs. Bu

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: White Paper: Migrating from Redhat satellite server to Puppet + Foreman

2013-06-13 Thread Keiran Sweet
Hi There, At the moment we don't, but it is something we need to look at. Part of the challenge with this particular environment was that every system was literally different in configuration and installed package versions. What I opted to do was pick a modern baseline OS to bring the whole fleet

[Puppet Users] Re: White Paper: Migrating from Redhat satellite server to Puppet + Foreman

2013-06-11 Thread Matthew Reams
Hi. I really appreciate this knowledge sharing. I currently use Spacewalk instead of Red Hat Satellite for patch management of my RHEL hosts, but I'm not happy with it for configuration management and working towards implementing Puppet. How do you audit and report your current package level