Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple systems with identical hardware
I'm slowly coming to conclsuion that you are trying to solve a problem with Gentoo that binary distros already solved a very long time ago. You are forcing yourself to become the sole maintainer of GrantOS and do all the heavy lifting of packaging. But, Mint and friends already did all that work already and frankly, they are much better at it than you or I. I think it will work if I can find a way to manage the few differences above. Am I overlooking any potential issues? I think Grant Should look at CFengine, if he is not familar with it. It is the traditional 800 pound Gorrilla when it comes to managing many systems. Surely there are folks there in those forums that can help Grant filter his ideas until they are ready for action. CFengine is in portage. Alan may be right, as CFengine (or whatever) may work better with a binary distribution and is probable more tightly integrated with something like debian or such OSes. Can you give me a general idea of how my workflow might be with a solution like that? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple systems with identical hardware
On 29/09/2013 20:36, Grant wrote: I'm slowly coming to conclsuion that you are trying to solve a problem with Gentoo that binary distros already solved a very long time ago. You are forcing yourself to become the sole maintainer of GrantOS and do all the heavy lifting of packaging. But, Mint and friends already did all that work already and frankly, they are much better at it than you or I. I think it will work if I can find a way to manage the few differences above. Am I overlooking any potential issues? I think Grant Should look at CFengine, if he is not familar with it. It is the traditional 800 pound Gorrilla when it comes to managing many systems. Surely there are folks there in those forums that can help Grant filter his ideas until they are ready for action. CFengine is in portage. Alan may be right, as CFengine (or whatever) may work better with a binary distribution and is probable more tightly integrated with something like debian or such OSes. Can you give me a general idea of how my workflow might be with a solution like that? It's not really possible to give a cut and dried answer to that, as all three solutions (CFEngine, Puppet, Chef) try hard to integrate themselves into your needs rather than get you to integrate into a rigid code-imposed system. I could say that you load a config into Puppet, define how it works and where it must go, then tell puppet to do it and let you know the results, but that doesn't tell you much. I reckon you should pop over to puppet's website and start reading. As you grasp the general ideas you'll find ways to make it work for you. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple systems with identical hardware
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: I'm slowly coming to conclsuion that you are trying to solve a problem with Gentoo that binary distros already solved a very long time ago. You are forcing yourself to become the sole maintainer of GrantOS and do all the heavy lifting of packaging. But, Mint and friends already did all that work already and frankly, they are much better at it than you or I. I think it will work if I can find a way to manage the few differences above. Am I overlooking any potential issues? I think Grant Should look at CFengine, if he is not familar with it. It is the traditional 800 pound Gorrilla when it comes to managing many systems. Surely there are folks there in those forums that can help Grant filter his ideas until they are ready for action. CFengine is in portage. Alan may be right, as CFengine (or whatever) may work better with a binary distribution and is probable more tightly integrated with something like debian or such OSes. hth, James
