I have used cfengine2 and cfengine3, and I am currently learning puppet. These are roughly equivalent functionalities, with cfengine being the grandfather of all of them (circa 1993, iirc). One thing I have found is your programming preferences could help make the decision for you. cfengine is vaguely perl-like, while puppet is ruby-based. As I recall, bcfg2 is python-based. You can get all sorts of opinons on which is better and why around the internet.
--b On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:56 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > not sure how topical this here - as i'm not looking for anything > debian specific. i'm looking at using some type of configuration > management software. i have never used any of this software before, i > just think i'm outgrowing svn and scp :) > > i've found this wiki: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software > and have been comparing them. i am familiar with perl and mysql. > however, sense i don't think i would want to develop this software, it > shouldn't matter. i do need something that supports linux, bsd (and it > would be cool if i could have my two osx boxes on the system too - but > don't care as much). > > i'd prefer the system have some sort of ajax, soap, xml, syslog, or > snmp v3 output (in order of preference - can ya tell how i feel about > snmp?). but, i suppose i can parse and spit out pretty much any output > if need be. > > i'm not looking to pay for this (or i'd just shoot up to openview and > call it a day). > > btw, if i could take lvm, zfs, and virtualbox snapshots with whatever > software i use, that would be cool too :) > > comments? suggestions? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTikFT1z4y=eknftp1_ewp7l0syx...@mail.gmail.com > >
