-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/13 11:02, Mark Hahn wrote:
> sure, I like auto-configuring clusters too, but do you need > salt-like tools for this? No, that's why we use xCAT. :-) > sure - we currently use onesis, which has groups/roles too, though > it doesn't put the customization all on one spot, (still very > obvious.) we don't actually try to configure all our stuff from one > place, though (partly for historic and geographic reasons, I > guess.) I'm not really sure we'd want *everthing* intertwingled, > though - for instance the admin/compute/login part of a cluster is > basically independent from the luster server nodes. maybe we're > just not ambitious enough in our automation. Oh we don't do everything from one place, for our other infrastructure such as web servers, database servers, RT system, git server, etc) we use Debian and a few CentOS VMs deployed via Proxmox and managed using Puppet. cheers, Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHNP+0ACgkQO2KABBYQAh/yJwCfSotZoRNCS2eQ7MhgmgGtpLPt pH4AnRafrllSCdWQ8/pViPEeQrItX85Y =Ddn5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
