A. Rich wrote: > I'm thinking that we're going to move from cfengine 2 to puppet. This is > going to be a big architectural shift as well as a programming language shift. > There seem to be a lot of ruby books out there and one puppet book. If I had > to pick, say, three books to delve into ruby and its uses for puppet, which > ones should I pick? > I've been using puppet for 8 months and have yet to learn Ruby[1]. There are some aspects I haven't gotten around to yet, so perhaps mileage varies.
I setup our environment using various online resources . A coworker picked up "Pulling Strings with Puppet" and it helped him fill in gaps I hadn't gotten around to training him on yet. So it may be useful, even if dated. Puppet could really use a new good book with modern best practices included. [1] Puppet does use "erb" templates from ruby which is a simple templating language that looks about the same as all the others -- Neil Neely http://neil-neely.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
