not to go too far into the weeds, but I'm not sure I agree with "puppet is for people that can't rsync" and while I get the gist of that statement, having a standard toolkit (puppet, chef, whathaveyou) scales much better. It's the "who will run our shit if you get hit by a bus" situation. or the "let's not have to spend a month's salary bringing the new guy up to speed on our specialized tools" - just hire someone who already knows puppet or whatever.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Drew from Zhrodague < [email protected]> wrote: > On 7/15/14 3:56 PM, Howard White wrote: > >> On 07/15/2014 02:51 PM, Kent Perrier wrote: >> >>> Have you looked at installing cobbler and letting that take care of the >>> details? >>> >>> Just wondering. >>> >>> >> In the best of all worlds, I would have [ puppet | chef | spacewalk | >> cobbler | wtf ]. I'm a one-handed-wallpaper-hanger here... >> > > I found that puppet is for people that can't rsync. I spent part > of a year migrating to puppet, and found that it is easier for me to simply > write in bash, instead of wrapping bash inside of Puppet's format (pulling > all my hair out wondering where the nice logs went). I also found that the > installation requirements to get puppet running on EL6 dwarfs the > requirements to get our application running - bash and the gnu tools are > already installed. > > I'm also missing system-config-netboot and > system-config-kickstart. I usually assemble the tftpboot directories > manually. I haven't setup a proper pxe install environment in a while, > though I do one-offs for various embedded systems all the time. > > I work in a large environment in EC2. bash works just fine for > installation, configuration, and testing, before activation/go-live. > > -- > > Drew from Zhrodague > post-apocalyptic ad-hoc industrialist > [email protected] > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- http://www.wesleyduffeebraun.com <http://www.ashevillephotobooth.com> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
