On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:51 AM, Brice Figureau wrote: > Hi Rein, > > On 05/12/09 00:08, Rein Henrichs wrote: >> Greetings Puppeteers, >> >> Reductive Labs and the Puppet Dashboard team (that would be me) are >> proud to announce the immediate release of Puppet Dashboard 0.0.1, >> codenamed "Enterra". Because the Enterra is a car. And cars have >> dashboards. Puppet Dashboard is a web front end that keeps you >> informed and in control of everything going on in your Puppet >> ecosystem. It currently functions as a reporting dashboard and an >> external node repository and will soon do much more, including having >> better marketing copy. >> >> This release is a minimally functional alpha release targeted >> especially at those of you who are interested in playing with a shiny >> new tool and helping to shape its further development. As Puppet >> Dashboard is under active development, you can expect future releases >> to be frequent and driven largely by feedback from the Puppet >> community. >> >> We are releasing to the dev list in hopes of receiving much-needed >> feedback on ease of installation, functionality and anything else you >> might like to tell us before our general release to the users list. >> >> Code and installation instructions: >> http://github.com/reductivelabs/puppet-dashboard >> >> Tickets: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/dashboard >> >> I am also available via this list and in #puppet-dev on >> irc.freenode.net as ReinH for any questions. > > How does it compare to The Foreman? > Is it something different? Complementary?
Unfortunately it's essentially competitive to Foreman. At this point it's a much smaller, less functional application than Foreman - our plan is to release very small chunks of functionality and get feedback, rather than trying to produce a complete application in one go. We still hold out hope that at some point we can work directly with Ohad, but our IP needs as a company unfortunately aren't compatible with his own IP concerns. Hopefully our two applications can to some extent rely on common libraries, and even build them where appropriate, rather than trying to reproduce everything independently. I think over time we'll find a nice balance, and for the next couple of quarters, at least, they're going to look quite different and have a very different development process. In some ways, though, this is exactly as planned - we want to clearly enable other applications to work with our standard interfaces, and the existence of tools like Foreman shows that this is possible. I think Ohad's goals are a bit different than ours, so it makes sense that we would produce different applications. -- I have an answering machine in my car. It says, "I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out. -- Stephen Wright --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
