We use it for our Scientific Linux systems at IoraHealth. We use Puppet in its "standalone" mode so we don't need the added infrastructure for a Puppet Master -- something like the strategy here:
http://bitfieldconsulting.com/scaling-puppet-with-distributed-version-control (And we have just started provisioning developer machines -- on OS/X -- with GitHub's Boxen, which is built on Puppet.) I am glad to hear that other people are updating modules for Scientific Linux. We found that it was fairly difficult to use off-the-shelf modules, and wrote a lot of our own. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:43 PM, aurfalien <[email protected]> wrote: > Many in the VFX industry use it as well. > > Pretty solid. > > Was using CacheFS in Irix many moons ago and then various manually > maintained kick starts/rysncs but all in all, Puppet is pretty shweet. > > - aurf > > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Graham Allan wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:27:07PM -0500, Jamie Duncan wrote: > >> pro - powerful and well-supported > >> con - you have to learn a new syntax > >> > >> alternative - bcfg2 > > > > Also cfengine, though that seems to be getting less fashionable... We > > still use it, no compelling reasons to change so far! > > > > G. > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Graham Allan - I.T. Manager > > School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
