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<div>Master-less puppet might a fun thing to try after you've tried all the other, more fun things.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi@anselmi.us> <br>Date: 3/25/2016 12:53 PM (GMT-07:00) <br>To: CLUE's mailing list <clue@cluedenver.org> <br>Subject: Re: [clue] CM for a small sysadmin. <br><br>Chris Fedde wrote:<br>> I'm always surprised that rdist never comes up in this discussion. That was<br>> the system we used at the old USWest and I brought it with me several other<br>> places. Having spent a year each with cfengine, puppet and ansible I'm<br>> retuning to rdist at my next opportunity.<br><br>You should give a talk on how you used rdist and how it was better than the others. I'd come if it <br>wasn't on a Saturday.<br><br>I think I used rdist long ago. It pushes files out to remote machines, right?<br><br>So the obvious disadvantages of that seems to be that it's reuse by cut and paste and it either <br>bypasses your package manager or you build package stuff on top of it. But maybe you have better <br>experience than I.<br><br>I don't think it would be any worse than what I'm contemplating for bootstrapping, though <br>debootstrap already connects that to package management. I'll eventually have to see if there are<br><br>One thing I'd like to see, though I don't know whether anyone is doing it, is that machines manage <br>themselves. So they get a config and apply it, rather than some other machine making changes to <br>them. That may not matter much in practice, and it may not be as available as I hope. But I'm <br>guessing rdist doesn't work that way (it didn't when I used it last).<br><br>Dave<br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br>For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue<br></body></html>