On Sunday 17 June 2007 12:11 am, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > Some of the guys I work with are switching to puppet from cfengine, > and I'm curious if anyone here has any thoughts on either tool. > > Up to this point, I've been able to just do configure changes > manually, but now it looks like I need to wise up and use some of > these automated tools.
nhoeot. (never heard of either of them) But maybe I should have. Should I need something like this in a hosting enviornment? We build all servers to the same spec, but later the configuration may change for each server individually. The only time this has been a problem is (for example) when we have a system crash, and have to rebuild from bare metal (doesn't happen often, less than once a year), we can restore the users and what they've installed, but we don't know what (for example) extra perl or php modules may have been installed. Is there some way either of these will simplify it for us? Or will it become even more complex <smile>? For those who, like me, couldn't figure out how to search google for puppet, I finally managed with these terms: puppet system configuration Thanks for any possible advice. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-7540, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
