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On 7/7/2011 1:37 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 07 July 2011 11:23:15 kashani did opine thusly: |
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>> On 7/2/2011 3:14 PM, Grant wrote: |
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>>> After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've |
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>>> decided to stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the |
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>>> number of Gentoo systems I'm responsible for and they're |
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>>> nearing double-digits. What can be done to make the management |
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>>> of multiple Gentoo systems easier? I think identical hardware |
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>>> in each system would help a lot but I'm not sure that's |
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>>> practical. I need to put together a bunch of new workstations |
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>>> and I'm thinking some sort of server/client arrangement with |
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>>> the only Gentoo install being on the server could be |
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>>> appropriate. |
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>>> |
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>>> - Grant |
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>> You may want to look at something like a config management |
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> system. |
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>> I'm using Puppet these days, but Gentoo support isn't spectacular. |
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>> It would be a bit complex to have Puppet install the packages with |
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>> the correct USE flags. However you could use Puppet to manage all |
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>> the text files and then manage the packages somewhat manually. |
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> Give chef a try. |
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> It overcomes a lot of the issue puppet ran into, and of course makes |
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> new ones all of it's won, but by and large chef is more flexible. |
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Too late. I've already put a year in with Puppet and have too much |
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working code to switch. Also I'm not much of a programmer so I get a bit |
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more out of the DSL though my templates are getting fairly fancy these |
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days. For anyone else interested in what we're talking about, here's a |
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fairly balanced and up to date link talking about some of the differences. |
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http://redbluemagenta.com/2011/05/21/puppet-vs-chef/ |
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