consider this a bit of devils advocacy and/or display of hickishness: why the big deal about cf-engine/salt/puppet/chef/etc? to me, a sensible cluster is nfs-root based, so there is hardly ever any mass-configuration to do. when there is, it's usually something like "pdsh -a check_something.sh".
I can easily imagine large web-based sites that might have lots of machines in different roles, for which these auto-devops systems would make a lot of sense. but even a large HPC cluster might consist of one admin node, and identical N-1 compute nodes, and one login node (compute node with a couple tweaks.) an organization might well have multiple such clusters, though that begs the question of why they are separate... regards, mark hahn. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
