The biggest problem with running Chef or Puppet is that you have an extra package to install. When you mention Ruby to people, they immediately think of web applications.
I think a lot of people are more comfortable with C/C++ or even Java applications, with Ruby you need the Ruby interpreter & libraries installed on EACH of the managed nodes. I am not against Chef or Puppet, but if there is a simple package that is written in C/C++, and is much simpler to learn, then I am more willing to use auto configuration management. In the end, the common tasks are not that complicated, why would one need to learn a new language? --Chi On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote: 2) And the BioTeam integrates StarCluster with Opscode Chef, so you can automate many of the administrative tasks (create users, package management, service setup, etc) of EC2 SGE clusters: http://bioteam.net/2011/03/dude-you-got-some-chef-in-my-starcluster/ While I have more experience with IBM Tivoli & Puppet, I am really impressed with the Chef EC2 module. And Chef is gaining quite a lot of momentum lately. E.g. Dell recently open sourced Crowbar, which is an OpenStack installer based on Chef. I will wait for Puppet Enterprise 2.0, which is supposed to have new EC2 & VMware provisioning & orchestration capabilities, and see how Puppet compares with Chef before I decide if I am switching to Chef. But configuration management is real and it can cut down a lot of IT infrastructure maintenance. Rayson On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Kristen Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Dagdigian <dag at sonsorol.org> writes: > >> By FAR the best way to run standalone Grid Engine clusters on the Amazon >> Cloud today is to simply use MIT Starcluster : >> >> http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/index.html > > I didn't mention it as I got the impression that that wasn't the OP's > case, but probably it should be mentioned in the same place on > gridengine.info, assuming that's still the best place for such things. > Kristen Eisenberg > Billige Fl垐e > Marketing GmbH > Emanuelstr. 3, > 10317 Berlin > Deutschland > Telefon: +49 (33) > 5310967 > Email: > utebachmeier at > gmail.com > Site: > http://flug.airego.de - Billige Fl垐e vergleichen > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
