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On Thursday 07 July 2011 14:01:55 kashani did opine thusly: |
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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 |
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> >>> management |
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> >>> of multiple Gentoo systems easier? I think identical |
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> >>> 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 |
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> >>> 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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> >>> |
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> >> You may want to look at something like a config management |
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> > |
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> > system. |
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> > |
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> >> I'm using Puppet these days, but Gentoo support isn't |
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> >> spectacular. It would be a bit complex to have Puppet install |
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> >> the packages with the correct USE flags. However you could |
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> >> use Puppet to manage all the text files and then manage the |
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> >> packages somewhat manually. |
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> > |
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> > Give chef a try. |
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> > |
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> > It overcomes a lot of the issue puppet ran into, and of course |
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> > makes new ones all of it's won, but by and large chef is more |
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> > flexible. |
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> |
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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 |
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> bit more out of the DSL though my templates are getting fairly |
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> fancy these days. For anyone else interested in what we're talking |
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> about, here's a fairly balanced and up to date link talking about |
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> some of the differences. |
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> http://redbluemagenta.com/2011/05/21/puppet-vs-chef/ |
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At least with puppet you can still work around shortcomings as you |
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find them (no black box tricks in puttet) |
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But regardless of it's quality, it's still 1,000,000's of times better |
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than doing it all manually! |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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