On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Yasha Karant <[email protected]> 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
Switching is expensive. It's Ruby based, so iif you haven't mastered Ruby your ability to write new modules is limited. And it requires a complex backend database: anytime you introduce a database in a critical path, you have to factor in the reliability and support of the database itself. The result is the last two times I evaluated it I rejected as too complicated, and too much work, to replace the existing and admittedly complex hand-written infrastructure or separate cfengine or Bladelogic management tools in place. It has a good reputation, and a lot of users, so new modules to do things are often available directly rather than requiring personal authorship.
