Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Falb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/2010 17:16, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready by a long way... that would eliminate it for me I've heard that before... yet I, personally, know of both postgresql and mysql

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread James Hogarth
On 4 February 2010 21:48, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: For pure RHEL/Centos/Fedora environments (especially centos/rhel) I can recommend Spacewalk for any reasonable number of systems (20+) for the combination of package management, configuration management and kickstart management... Has it

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2010/2/5 James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com: There has been substantial development since last April. 0.7 is very usable in production (and indeed makes my life much easier) and 0.8 is due soon. James Do you use PostgreSQL or Oracle as backend ? It seems Postgresql support is a bit far

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread James Hogarth
On 5 February 2010 13:18, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/5 James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com: There has been substantial development since last April. 0.7 is very usable in production (and indeed makes my life much easier) and 0.8 is due soon. James Do you use

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread Alan McKay
Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready by a long way... that would eliminate it for me -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 9:35 AM, Alan McKay wrote: Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready by a long way... that would eliminate it for me What's the difference for a basically-embedded piece of an application? But, looking at the complexity needed to manage a single OS

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
Oracle - postgresql work is still ongoing and not yet production ready by a long way... that would eliminate it for me I've heard that before... yet I, personally, know of both postgresql and mysql in serious production use. For example, one company that not only does managed security

[CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description language I'd be very interested.  Cfengine v3 might be getting there but the

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/4/2010 1:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikeselllesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description language I'd be very interested.

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description language

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread James Hogarth
For pure RHEL/Centos/Fedora environments (especially centos/rhel) I can recommend Spacewalk for any reasonable number of systems (20+) for the combination of package management, configuration management and kickstart management... James ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Management Redux (was: best parallel / cluster SSH)

2010-02-04 Thread m . roth
For pure RHEL/Centos/Fedora environments (especially centos/rhel) I can recommend Spacewalk for any reasonable number of systems (20+) for the combination of package management, configuration management and kickstart management... Has it improved significantly since the end of this past