[clue] deploy, configure, & manage

[Mark G. Harvey]

CLUE folks, 

Got a Sys Admin question:  I'm looking for recommendations / suggestions to deploy, configure, & manage a couple dozen CentOS machines across Development, Staging, Production environments. 

I plan to build a template with all the common components & apps such as monitoring agents (eg. Tripwire), vFabric tc (tomcat), etc.  Then capture a kickstart file to automate deployment to a second machine ... but this seem like one at a time deployment process.  

Looking for tools to modify & deploy stuff like repo settings, packages, scripts, accounts, passwords, networking, etc.  I'm sure you know the drill.  

I've heard of the following tools ... but don't know which is a good fit, if any.  
	* cfengine

	* puppet

	* chef

	* spacewalk


I'm sure there are very experienced folks on this message distribution list who have suggestions & gotchas that should be considered.  Appreciate the help.  TIA


Mark
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