[clue-tech] Configuration management recommendations?

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Ski Dawg <skidawg at skidawg.org> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have been tasked with getting a configuration management system
> running at work.
>
> We have about 20 CentOS web servers running (some virtual and some
> physical), and we are trying to come up with a tool that will assist
> setting up new boxes as we bring them online, as well as maintaining
> existing systems when changes are necessary.
>
> After spending a little bit of time searching over the past couple of
> days, I have run across four that seem like good options, cfengine,
> puppet, chef and bcfg2.
>

We have used cfengine at work, and I do not like it. The control
language is arcane, sometimes impossible to understand, and the order
of applying actions is rigid and not well suited to our needs. I would
never use it again.

I reviewed puppet several times and liked the approach - better suited
for configuration management, IMHO. It's based on ruby which some love
and some avoid.

I'm not familiar with the other two.


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Collins Richey
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