We use puppet extensively here at Stanford (central IT Services) - to my knowledge, we are the largest puppet user at the moment. I can highly recommend puppet above cfengine.
-darren On Aug 7, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Derek Yarnell wrote: > Hi Troels, > > We have been using system configuration management systems for a long time. > At first obviously we had in house system configuration scripts > (rsync,make,m4). We found that when we hired new people it took them a very > long time to figure out what was really going on in our management framework. > Additionally it took a very long time to integrate a new OS into the system. > So we moved into the world of Cfengine but in reality it never totally > replaced our old management system. This was because it didn't have a good > way to use template/macroing of files. So for awhile we lived in a dual > system configuration management which was obviously worse then just one. > > Finally we made the decision to find something that met all our needs. > Puppet offered all of this so about now 9 months ago we made the switch of > all our systems into it. We continue to write more and more modules to take > more advantage of puppet so it continues to be the gift that keeps giving. > > There are other options to consider like Chef[1] and Bcfg[2] however they > were really underdeveloped or didn't really meet our needs. > > [1] - http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home > [2] - http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2 > > Thanks, > derek > > On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Troels Arvin wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I would like to ditch my post-installation script (for server >> installations) which is becoming too complex. And I would like to move to >> a systems configuration management system where configuration is written >> down in plain-text files, so that it may be put in our version control >> system. >> >> I have read about a lot of system configuration tools, such as Puppet and >> cfengine, and they both sound interesting. Now I need to hear from people >> with first-hand experience: Does someone here happen to have experience >> with at least two system configuration systems? Which were they, and which >> did you prefer and why? >> >> By the way: The requirement for text-based configuration means that I can >> forget Satellite Server / Spacewalk, right? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Troels Arvin <[email protected]> >> http://troels.arvin.dk/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv5-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list >> > > Derek Yarnell > UNIX Systems Administrator > University of Maryland > Institute for Advanced Computer Studies > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list ----------------------- Darren Patterson Stanford IT Services 650.725.6587 / 650.804.8143 (cell) _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
