Francisco, thank you for making your feelings known about this. I think your comments are partly fair, if a little conspiratorial. I suggest using Nakarin's calm suggestion.
There used to be a quick start guide, and it seems to have fallen off the website during a revision, I am embarrassed to say. I shall look into this and make it available again. There will be a couple of changes as we release 3.1.0 in a couple of weeks. I have found that people find Puppet superficially attractive, but that they often come back to Cfengine having wasted a year when they find it doesn't scale to complex requirements or meet all their needs. It doesn't solve the problems because it oversimplifies. This is the dilemma. Mark Francisco Reyes wrote: > Erlend Leganger writes: > >> cfengine uses the freemium model (hook users on the free product, charge >> for advanced or special features) - in that model it is a point to make it >> really, really easy for all to start using the free product so that you >> can upsell later. This is not the case with cf3 today. > > Agree. > I was/am pretty surprised that the commercial entity responsible for > cfengine has not done a better job at getting people "hooked" into their own > product. > > Also, was surprised they didn't even bother to find tutorials/quick start > guides from other people and just list them in their site. > > The impression I get, so far, is the "we are big, we are widely used.. and > it is your job to go through our in-complete docs".. > > I am giving myself a few more days (blew the weekend on this) and moving on > if I can't get it to work. I looked at puppet and it really seemed simpler.. > I just didn't like the whole lot of dependencies it has. I could have > rolled my own solution in less time that it is taking to get a basic > cfengine config done. I primarily just need to push some config files > and get programs re-started once a new file is pushed. > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
