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From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 01:30:22
Message-Id: 5418E422.9090108@alectenharmsel.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef by Alan McKinnon
1 We use bcfg2, and all I can say is to stay away. XML abuse runs rampant
2 in bcfg2. From what I've heard from other professional sysadmins, Puppet
3 is the favorite, but that's mostly conjecture.
4
5 Alec
6
7 On 09/16/2014 04:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
8 > Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/chef?
9 >
10 > What are your thoughts?
11 >
12 > I've made several attempts over the years to get puppet going but never
13 > really got it off the ground. Chef I stay away from (likely due to the
14 > first demo of it I saw and how badly that went....)
15 >
16 > Puppet seems to me a good product for a large site with 1000 hosts.
17 > Not so much for ~20 or so. Plus puppet's language and configs get large
18 > and hard to keep track of - lots and lots of directory trees with many
19 > things mentioning other things. (Nagios has the same problem if you
20 > start keeping host, services, groups and commands in many different files)
21 >
22 > I've stumbled upon ansible, it seems much better than puppet for
23 > smallish sites with good odds I might even keep the whole thing in my
24 > head at any one time :-)
25 >
26 > Anyone care to share experiences?
27 >
28 >
29 >

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[gentoo-user] Re: Ansible, puppet and chef James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>