[clue] deploy, configure, & manage

[Mark G. Harvey]

Jim, 

Thanks for the reply.  

OpenStack ... for sure have heard of it.  I'd have to bounce it off the customer & the prime contractor to see if it would fly.  Kind of doubt it since the contractor is building their PaaS / SaaS solution on Could Foundry (VMware hypervisor), a competing cloud project.  

Some of the software has been selected, but regarding management of the CentOS VMs, there is still more vetting out to find the right solution. 

Mark




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> From: Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net>
>To: Mark G. Harvey <markgharvey at yahoo.com>; CLUE's mailing list <clue at cluedenver.org> 
>Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:40 PM
>Subject: Re: [clue] deploy, configure, & manage
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>Have you looked at OpenStack?  Or is that not appropriate for the diverse set of machines/services you'll run on these machines?
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Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
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On 5/23/13 12:38 PM, Mark G. Harvey wrote:
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>>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. 
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>>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.  
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>>Looking for tools to modify & deploy stuff like repo settings, packages, scripts, accounts, passwords, networking, etc.  I'm sure you know the drill.  
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>>I've heard of the following tools ... but don't know which is a good fit, if any.  
>>	* cfengine
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>>	* puppet
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>>	* chef
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>>	* spacewalk
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>>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
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>>Mark
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