Help to find Automation tool

[Mamadou CHERIF]

Hello Team,

I am a noob on automation.

I should choose one tool between Puppet, CHEF and Spacewalk.

I have done some research on the web and i found that puppet is better.

But our company would like to use puppet opensource not enterprise version.

I would like to know if puppet ope,source version supports WINDOWS.

Thanks !

[Martin Alfke]

Hi Mamadou,

Puppet OpenSource also supports windows:
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows/

Best,
Martin

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[mamadou...@yahoo.fr]

Dear Martin ! 

Great!!!
Thanks you so much.
I will come back if any issue regarding Puppet Deployment.

Regards,

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[yeayu]

Hello,

Although we all probably suggest you to go for it, I think you should give it some more thought...

There are many other factors to consider:

- what's your environment like? all windows? 50% linux based? OS versions? are they fully supported?

- how confident do you feel with puppet's DSL, powershell or other scripting languages like ruby (this one for chef)?

- supportability, scalability, expandability, integration with external tools (i.e. VMware)...

Before making a final decision, I would get familiar with these tools, perform some testing, review pros/cons according to your strategic vision (what are you going to manage in the next 3/6/12/18 months?) ... and then make up your mind.

I hope this helps.

Regards

[mamadou...@yahoo.fr]

‎Dear yeayu,

Perfect! You are right...

I waste my time to read many documentation over internet.

But, I think that I found the right interlocutors now‎.

Our infrastructure is based on virtualisation.

We have 85% Linux VMs‎ and 15% Windows.

We already use an automation tool which is Bladelogic. 

I have earlier done some comparison between Puppet and Bladelogic and found that the last one is powerful than Puppet.

But we are oblige to change bladelogic for Group security raison.

They proposed us 3 software (Chef, spacewalk and Puppet) .

We have two distant Datacenter.

We want to continue our Deployment, automatic OS installation, dashboard,  Group VM creation and so one...

We have to take ownership on this automation tool and give limited right ‎to our partner.

Best Regards ! 

Envoyé de mon smartphone BlackBerry 10.

De: yeayu Envoyé: dimanche 6 mars 2016 19:47 À: Puppet Users Cc: tux...@gmail.com; mamadou...@yahoo.fr

[Walid]

The alternative for spacewalk would be foreman, foreman can do linux provisioning (bare metal, docker, vms), and can do configurtion managment and reporting, as well as scalable and was built with the assumption of distributed data centers. in terms of configuration managment foreman uses currently puppet 3, and can be used with chef, and Ansible via plugins. 

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[evan....@noaa.gov]

Agree with Abu, if for no other reason than Redhat, the original powerhouse behind spacewalk has moved to Puppet to power it's backend. Puppet+Foreman+katello+pulp combination is going to give you very powerful tools for handling both windows and linux automation.

[mamadou...@yahoo.fr]

Dear Team, 

Can you provide me a right documentation for Puppet open source install included pre installation tasks?

I use centos6.7

Thanks in advance.

De: yeayu Envoyé: dimanche 6 mars 2016 19:47 À: Puppet Users

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