Configuration management tool shootout, anyone?

[Seth House]

Today I tried out Google's Slack configuration management tool. I
thought it might be fun to do a shootout-style presentation on these
sorts of tools.

Has anyone used Puppet or Cfengine (or anything else)?

[Stuart Jansen]

On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 21:01 -0800, Seth House wrote:
> Has anyone used Puppet or Cfengine (or anything else)?

I use Puppet to manage a handful of systems, and I've researched both
versions of cfengine before rejecting them.

The analogy I used on #utah recently is that configuration management is
to system administrators as revision control is to developers. Sure,
plenty of people live without it, but they really shouldn't.

Slack looks like the equivalent of RCS. Very minimal, but useful when
not pushed too hard.

Puppet is like CVS. An evolution of RCS with ideas that adds real power,
but uglier than RCS.

Cfengine is like Perforce. Complicated, proprietary, widely despised but
also widely used.

So far as I'm aware, there is no SVN of configuration management, let
alone a git.

--
"XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't
using enough of it." - Chris Maden

[Seth House]

On Jan 17, 5:35 pm, Stuart Jansen <sjan...@buscaluz.org> wrote:
> So far as I'm aware, there is no SVN of configuration management, let
> alone a git.

Thanks for the colorful explanation. :)

If I do Slack will you split an "Intro to" presentation with me and do
Puppet?