Thanks. Looking forward Puppet then : I need to configure a whole network
with workstations, computing clusters, general servers (www, mail...).

2009/1/23 Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>

> Fabien Dupont wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have installed cobbler to manage my distro/kickstart trees. It works
> > really well and I would like to go a step further by moving
> > configuration from kickstart to a configuration management system such
> > as puppet or cfengine. Taking a look at Spacewalk since it integrates
> > cobbler in version 0.4, I've seen one of its feature is management and
> > deployement of config files. Unfortunately, it only works with Oracle
> > and I can't install Oracle, due to infra rules.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me which configuration management system would
> > integrates best with cobbler ? Or which one is used with Spacewalk, so
> > I could migrates easily when it supports PostgreSQL ?
>
> Spacewalk uses it's own system of laying down template files.
>
> Cobbler implements it's own way of doing that is /not/ the same, but is
> very similar and based on the ideas of Spacewalk's.  The advantage of
> Cobbler's system is that it allows you to use Cheetah for /both/
> kickstarts and installed files, and allows you to use the same template
> variables between kickstart and the installed files.    Files can be
> updated on command with koan.  Since the template syntaxes are different
> I am not sure if Spacewalk will support the new system in the future.
> This is basically designed for setups where puppet is too much and not a
> lot of post-install configuration updating is needed.
>
> Cobbler also contains some integration for use with Puppet, see here:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UsingCobblerWithConfigManagementSystem
> that allows you to define what puppet classes and variables get mapped
> to which profiles and systems.   This would be your most advanced, but
> not necessarily simplest, option.   I also think it's minimally tested
> at this point as it just came out in 1.4  (puppet users pppppplease help
> me with this one).
>
> Generally I'd recommend taking a look at Puppet first.
>
> >
> > Thanks for you help.
> >
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> > Fabien Dupont
> > System Engineer
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