[clue] CM for a small sysadmin.

[David L. Willson]

I guess I'm over-stating it. The node *can* download from git. It doesn't *have* to. The pp files can be anywhere. 

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This is a good time for a r3VOLution. 

----- Original Message -----

> Master-less puppet might a fun thing to try after you've tried all
> the other, more fun things.

> It's just like normal, but the managed node downloads a git repo and
> compiles it's catalog from that. No Puppet Master to load up and no
> certificate-signing dance. But, no statistics, either.

> Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

> -------- Original message --------
> From: "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us>
> Date: 3/25/2016 12:53 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: CLUE's mailing list <clue at cluedenver.org>
> Subject: Re: [clue] CM for a small sysadmin.

> Chris Fedde wrote:
> > I'm always surprised that rdist never comes up in this discussion.
> > That was
> > the system we used at the old USWest and I brought it with me
> > several other
> > places. Having spent a year each with cfengine, puppet and ansible
> > I'm
> > retuning to rdist at my next opportunity.

> You should give a talk on how you used rdist and how it was better
> than the others. I'd come if it
> wasn't on a Saturday.

> I think I used rdist long ago. It pushes files out to remote
> machines, right?

> So the obvious disadvantages of that seems to be that it's reuse by
> cut and paste and it either
> bypasses your package manager or you build package stuff on top of
> it. But maybe you have better
> experience than I.

> I don't think it would be any worse than what I'm contemplating for
> bootstrapping, though
> debootstrap already connects that to package management. I'll
> eventually have to see if there are

> One thing I'd like to see, though I don't know whether anyone is
> doing it, is that machines manage
> themselves. So they get a config and apply it, rather than some other
> machine making changes to
> them. That may not matter much in practice, and it may not be as
> available as I hope. But I'm
> guessing rdist doesn't work that way (it didn't when I used it last).

> Dave
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