I'm working on some features on the development branch (Cobbler 1.3 and 
later) that will make it very easy for admins to set up new 
machines/nodes so that they are running Func out of the box.   I think 
this is a very powerful way to deploy things so that they are 
controllable later and should hopefully introduce more people to Func 
(http://fedorahosted.org/func). 
You can read more about what I'm doing here:

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/FuncIntegration

On a related note, I still need some help testing the Puppet external 
nodes integration feature on the devel branch ... 
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UsingCobblerWithConfigManagementSystem

In conjunction these become nicely powerful in that you have a config 
management system and also a system (Func!) for one-off tasks, misc 
scripting, and "do this now!" type activity.   Coupled with a deployment 
system (Cobbler) this becomes especially nice.

Read an outside view on this in terms of Francesco Crippa's presentation 
to Linux TAG this year:

http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/fcrippa_large-scale-env.pdf

--Michael






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