Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Any comments? Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20872,20875#msg-20875
Neil, actually the entire phrase was "push button system provisioning and management", and it usually means that you can create (if using VMs), install from bare metal and configure a system with a single (maybe metaphorical) "push of a button", so I would consider quite the opposite from manual intervention (arguably you have to tell the system somehow, when you want a new machine). Some of the "big vendor" systems are actually quite nice, when they work and if you have all the necessary resources. My main beef with most of them is their size: they need big servers, with lots of memory and disk space, are complex to install (most companies I have known normally just hire some vendor to do it for them) and impose heavy configuration requirements (for example, some need many ports open bidirectionally between the servers and the clients, which I find unacceptable). Compared to cfengine's needs, it seems excessive. On the other hand, a big advantage many such systems have is a great body of out-of-the-box knowledge about systems - they have huge libraries about how to do different things in Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, Linux, etc. I of course favor cfengine, but many companies are swayed by pretty GUIs, and have the (mostly erroneous) impression that more complex and more expensive must somehow mean "better". _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
