I've used both Puppet and SaltStack - SaltStack is what I focus on now. Wherever you go - I highly recommend using Vagrant to test your configuration management quickly.
Also git for version control. Ryan Peck On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < [email protected]> wrote: > I've decided it's time to step forth out of the stone ages and get into > CM. > > > > As I understand it, the major contenders are puppet, chef, ansible, and > salt. (And optionally vagrant on top of it all). > > > > Not having the experience of using and understanding each and every one of > them, I decided to start digging into puppet - just because people talking > about it seem the most positively aligned with what I want to do. However, > when I start browsing their site, reading documentation, it's immediately > overwhelming and mind-numbing. > > > > Funnily, I googled for "getting started with puppet" and came up with > this: http://puppetlabs.com/presentations/getting-started-puppet > It's funny because they don't have this sort of thing front and center, > their website is organized as to be completely overwhelming and mind > numbing as mentioned above. But anyway.... > > > > I assume a lot of people here have experience with these things. If you > think I'm not starting out in the "right" direction, or would like to offer > any other advice, please let me know. > > > > I am primarily interested in making a small number of machines > standardized, recreatable, manageable. If I run a production server on > amazon and I want to migrate it somewhere else, I'd like to know I easily > can. And when the current OS becomes EOL, I'd like to know I have a sane > path for recreating the same services on the new OS that's available at the > time, and stuff like that. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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