<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">CLUE folks, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Got a Sys Admin question: I'm looking for recommendations / suggestions to <font style="background-color: transparent;"><span>deploy, configure, & manage</span></font><span style="background-color: transparent;"> a couple dozen CentOS machines across Development, Staging, Production environments. </span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">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. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier
New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Looking for tools to modify & deploy stuff like repo settings, packages, scripts, accounts, passwords, networking, etc. I'm sure you know the drill. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I've heard of the following tools ... but don't know which is a good fit, if any. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color:
transparent;">cfengine</span><br></span></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">puppet</span><br></span></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">chef</span><br></span></li><li><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">spacewalk</span><br></span></li></ul></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm sure there are very experienced folks on this message
distribution list who have suggestions & gotchas that should be considered. Appreciate the help. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TIA</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mark</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>