2012/5/2 Brian Gupta <brian.gu...@brandorr.com>
> So having an internal debate on whether to use puppet managed debian
> preseed files to configure packages prior to installation or
> installing with no-config and using puppet to manage the config files
> after the fact.
> The end of the discussion is that ideally one would use both, but if
> one had to chose just one, it would be puppet managing the configs,
> with the exception of certain packages that gain more benefit than
> average by being configured through debconf. e.g. - Setting root mysql
> password, so that debian maint. cron jobs can run without issue.
> Thoughts?
From my point of view it is a good way to be as close as possible on the
upstream way of doing. It is surely possible to write puppet classes for
everything to get administrative actions done but it is not very release
save. I made the observation that the amount of work which is necessary to
rewrite classes to match a new distribution release increases drastically
when I do the whole work with my own written classes. When I use standard
mechanisms that the distribution provide (regardless if debconf or
something else) instead of own configuration mechanism I save a lot of
time. I still can call the distribution mechanism with exec so I still can
reflect the configuration change within puppet.
Regards, Thomas
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