On 02/08/2010 05:07 PM, Jonathan Sabo wrote: > I think its a good idea to try and further the configuration > management capabilities in cobbler. I don't see doing that as > reinventing the wheel. If you can replace the need to set up a > separate run time configuration management system, awesome. I would > prefer to build fully configured systems as part of the provisioning > process over having to setup another system to do runtime > configuration management if at all possible. I think a better work > flow is to update your provisioning system (cobbler) and rebuild and > reboot into a fully configured system. Do you disagree?
My concern with the original pitch of the idea, which has been addressed already, was two-fold. One was the danger of re-inventing the wheel, which is obviously a choice anyone has to make for themselves. Sometimes in order to be able to move forward a giant leap, one has to make a step or two backwards. I'm the first person to understand that I just didn't see the point in this case -again, based on the original pitch of the idea. The other concern was the need to manage the configuration of a node during the runtime stage of a node's life cycle as well, not just during the provisioning stage or during the bootstrapping. Again from the original proposal, I didn't feel that was sufficiently addressed. Now that we all know more about Kelsey's intentions with MadHatter, this is less of a concern to me. Whether MadHatter is a poll, pull or push mechanism doesn't truly concern me, nor does it concern me whether it is platform-independent (but for that one proprietary software company's operating system product series). Again, Kelsey has already addressed both; My concerns were based on the original proposal, I just so happen to disagree and I feel I've made my argument to the extent that I can. Maybe that's just because of my fortunate disposition that I have, finding Puppet extremely easy to work with. Luckily, Kelsey has found use in my responses and is going to clarify / has cleared up what it is exactly he's after on aforementioned Wiki page. Win/win as far as I'm concerned ;-) -- Jeroen _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
