We (another group at Fermilab) have used Puppet for a couple of years now
to manage a few thousand systems, with good results. As Steve and Jamie
both noted, it's essentially a new language to learn, though a fairly
simple and well-behaved one. There are many user-contributed modules
available, etc.
We switched from cfengine, which is a viable alternative but has some
limitations that we wanted to get past.
Glenn
At 1:29pm on Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Timm wrote:
Large puppet community at Fermilab--I started using it a few months ago and
have been able to get productive and do a lot of things with it
very quickly. Many of its config files are written in a Ruby-like syntax so
Ruby training pays off with faster learning time.
Steve Timm
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Yasha Karant wrote:
Does anyone have experience with puppet from URL:
https://puppetlabs.com/
?
If so, positive and/or negative observations are requested, as well as
practical alternatives.
Yasha Karant
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Grid Facilities Department, FermiGrid Services Group, Group Leader.
Lead of FermiCloud project.
