Yeah puppet was a choice made by individuals who are not me. Given how we are using it with about 300 hosts and already have 3 puppet "masters" I would say we are already having scaling issues. Not to mention puppet configuration release management issues etc. I suspect puppet was chosen because it was ruby and well ruby so "cool" in certain circles.
I will take a look at all mentioned below though sadly I think we are not yet close to "discovering" our scaling issues. Though not looking at scaling from the beginning would have been my first tip off... *sigh* - Brian On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Pat O'Brien wrote: > We used puppet to control about 800 servers for almost a year until we > decided to cut our losses and move to a more scalable solution. We found > puppet to be too flexible in certain places and not flexible enough in > others. I've never used chef so I cannot really comment on how it works or > the scalability of it but what we finally landed on was using etch > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/etch/ > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/etch/wiki/Introduction). > > We now manage a little under 2000 hosts in three separate data centers with > etch without any issues with scalability, flexibility or manageability > whatsoever. > > We use etch in conjuction with nventory > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nventory/) and life is 1,000 times more > easier now than it was when we were using puppet. > > If you are looking into configuration management I would highly recommend at > the very least checking out etch. > > -pat > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Charles Wyble <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: >> >> >> I was just aware of the "Puppet vs CFEngine" debate, and was unaware of >> Chef... >> >> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home >> >> What made you switch? > > Ah sorry I didn't include a link. Search for chef could take a while. :) > > It just seems to be much more elegant, and feels like the "right way to do > things". > > Something akin to the RedHat vs Debian debate for me. Debian just does it > right, where RH systems seem to have a lot of rough edges. > > Something something personal preference and operators I know preferring it, > and there being recipes for everything. > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
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