Tiny Puppet and the evolution of Example42 modules

[Alessandro Franceschi]

Hi all,

with great satisfaction and excitement I'd like to announce here the release of version 0.1 of Tiny Puppet (TP).

TP is a Puppet module that allows easy and coherent management of virtually any application.

Consider it a mix of the whole set of Example42 Puppet modules + Puppi (optional).

You can read about it in the Introducing Tiny Puppet Blog post, or directly on the GitHub repo.

I consider Tiny Puppet an important step in the evolution of Example42 Puppet modules.

As you may know there's has been some discussion about how these modules should evolve from the "NextGen" (2.x) version to newer releases. The 3.x modules, based on StdMod standards, has never taken off, as, basically, there was not a real reason to justify the effort to convert/migrate the existing modules.

Now Tiny Puppet supports most of the applications managed in Example42 modules, it might not have all their specific features, but it boasts a much saner and lean common interface to their basic management.

In the next weeks I'm going to make some changes to the Example42 modules set:

- Most of the modules will be removed (they will keep on being maintained, by single voluntary maintainers, eventually)

- Some of the most significant modules will be kept and updated (they are going to be actively maintained)

- Third modules will be eventually added

- Higher Abstraction modules (stacks) will be added to manage, via Tiny Puppet and the other modules, complex, modular and composable setups.

To have an idea of which modules are going to be preserved and which ones will be removed to the official modules set, give a look at this list.

I'm looking forward to hear your opinion about this and any relevant suggestion or remark.

Best,

Alessandro Franceschi