Orchestration with Collins

[Benjamin VanEvery]

Hi all,

I'm curious if anyone has had any success using Collins to do orchestration tasks, e.g. rolling updates. I'm looking into Ansible, but since we currently use Puppet, I'd rather not throw another system configuration tool into the mix. 

I've looked at Puppet with MCollective, but it doesn't appear to have anything built in for generic orchestration tasks. 

The workflow I envision is getting my server list from Collins and moving through with my update tasks and keeping Collins up to date as changes are applied successfully or unsuccessfully, so that I can pick up the process from any point. 

Any ideas are welcome. Thanks!

--- bve