On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 09:25 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote:
> Tom Browder wrote: ... > If you have flocks of nearly identical servers in several > flavors, you want Puppet or Chef or something similar. > ... > Puppet has its own language for configuration. > > Both take the approach that a long-running client on each > machine will periodically reach out to your central config > server and get an updated set of instructions, then execute > those instructions. That's a pull mechanism. > > Ansible, on the other hand, relies on your laptop to reach out > to the client machines and do things to them. That's a push Good point. Maybe using Ansible or Rex to control my main server and use Puppet from it as control for the other, very similar servers might be the way to go. Thanks, Dan! -Tom
