Dave, On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 07:43 +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: > Hi, > I haven't seen any mention of Landscape before the recent one on the > list. Can we have more information about this product vs puppet or > similar tools?
Landscape doesn't compete directly with puppet or the other configuration management tools. When we did some analysis on where people found Linux difficult to manage some of common requirements were: a. We need to be able to visualise issues before we can resolve them b. There's a set of common administration things our staff do that are unproductive c. It's hard to manage security (packages) across a range of machines So the initial feature areas in Landscape focus on trying to help system administrators visualise issues in their systems so they can act and undertake common administration actions quickly/easily. > We have been doing a fair amount of development on puppet and I would > regret to yet another product that does similar things in the Open > Source market... If only to minimise duplicated effort. Puppet's a great tool and it's really great to see some development in what's a very problem. So I don't think your efforts will be wasted! Landscape is still in beta because we're still working to make the main areas feature complete. We won't be adding any new fundamental functionality until after our full release. It's worth noting that Landscape is not Open Source, it's proprietary software as a service (SaaS). We've made the client side open source, and released a number of the components we developed for it as a way of giving back to the community. > The pictures look great - who can provide us with more info? Or can I > join the beta program and see for myself? > > The beta join form does not work on the website. Apologies for that, it should be fixed shortly. > I can see Landscape is aimed squarely at Redhat's Sattelite, which is a > good thing, and I am keen to find out more :) > > thanks > > dave Regards, Steve -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
