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We use bcfg2, and all I can say is to stay away. XML abuse runs rampant |
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in bcfg2. From what I've heard from other professional sysadmins, Puppet |
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is the favorite, but that's mostly conjecture. |
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Alec |
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On 09/16/2014 04:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/chef? |
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> What are your thoughts? |
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> I've made several attempts over the years to get puppet going but never |
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> really got it off the ground. Chef I stay away from (likely due to the |
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> first demo of it I saw and how badly that went....) |
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> Puppet seems to me a good product for a large site with 1000 hosts. |
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> Not so much for ~20 or so. Plus puppet's language and configs get large |
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> and hard to keep track of - lots and lots of directory trees with many |
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> things mentioning other things. (Nagios has the same problem if you |
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> start keeping host, services, groups and commands in many different files) |
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> I've stumbled upon ansible, it seems much better than puppet for |
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> smallish sites with good odds I might even keep the whole thing in my |
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> head at any one time :-) |
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> Anyone care to share experiences? |
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