[Novalug] Config MGMT and client deployment

[Matt Ryanczak]

Both Chef and Puppet are written in Ruby. Chef uses a more Ruby like 
syntax in its scrips (recipes/cookbooks), its pretty much straight Ruby. 
The Puppet configuration DSL is "friendlier" to the non-programmer. In 
my opinion Chef is more capable out of the box but that capability comes 
at the cost complexity. I don't think puppet has the cloud integration 
that Chef does either. Chef's ability to interface directly to Amazon, 
Rackspace and other cloud providers (even vmware) is second to none. I 
think puppet has some of that but it is not as well developed.

I don't know of an analog that uses Python. There is Salt: 
https://github.com/thatch45/salt but it is not quite the same thing 
(very cool though).

~Matt


On 2/21/12 9:19 PM, sungo wrote:
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> On (02/21 21:07), Nick Danger wrote:
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>> Am I good with redoing the whole puppet stuff + add on stuff or is there
>> some new hotness?
>
> If you find anything better than cobbler, please let me know. I've not
> found anything better. (I'm still pretty bitter that Debian's FAI is
> such a sack of crap.) The trick, as always, is to keep it simple. Just
> like with puppet, folks go a bit crazy because it's scriptable.
>
> Puppet is a matter of some debate. Chef is another option. In my
> experience, the question is not whether puppet is better than chef or
> whatever. The question is what language do you want to work with. If
> you're hip to ruby, puppet's your best option. If you dig python, then
> you'll want chef. Religion aside, most automation options do the same
> thing. Find one that fits your brain and whose config files make sense
> to you.
>
> For what it's worth, I use cobbler quite happily with a medium sized
> ESXi deploy. Puppet and I still aren't on the best of terms but mostly
> because I keep having to fix other people's madness.
>
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