Thanks again for all the feedback. I'll let you guys know what we eventually go with!
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Casey Durfee <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting that you should mention Windows. I haven't been in that world > for many years now, but Active Directory + MSI packages + group policy with > Windows 2K is vastly better than anything I've seen the open-source world > come up with as far as deployment and configuration management. > > In the Windows world, you can just set up a base image on a new server, > drag and drop it into the right group in AD and let packages and group > policy care of the rest. If that's not enough, via WMI and COM, you can do > just about any sysadmin-related thing imaginable directly in python: > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/cookbook.html > > If you're not a Microsoft fan, it can be hard to understand why anybody > uses their stuff. The answer is that they (generally) make it ridiculously > easy for the people who set up and administer their enterprise products. > > We use chef and capistrano at MPOW for deployment/config management and > Fabric for miscellaneous scripting such as aggregating and processing > server logs. Fabric's a great little library, but I can't imagine using it > for any sort of complex deployment -- seems brittle and tedious to me, and > it wouldn't give you any sort of version control or security for > configuration files. I would take the Microsoft Way in a heartbeat if it > didn't involve, you know, running Windows... > > --Casey > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> +1 vagrant btw .. esp for those of us stuck on windoze =) >> >> cheers, >> -- >> Nimret Sandhu >> http://www.nimret.org >> > > -- k
