Hey Laurence, we [0] are actually managing around 300+ hosts here [1] with Debian preseed and cdist [2].
We used to use fai [3] and puppet[4] before, but moved migrated away from both: - fai is great and easy to use, but already does way more then we need: We wanted to have a minimal system bootstrapped, that will be afterwards configured by out configuration management system (puppet/cdist). Seperating these steps gave us a more flexible and cleaner way. Though fai is still great software to begin with (has easier disk setup than preseed) - We dropped puppet for several reasons, see [5]. Cheers, Nico [0] https://sans.ethz.ch/ [1] http://www.systems.ethz.ch/, http://www.cbrg.ethz.ch/ [2] http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/ [3] http://fai-project.org/ [4] http://www.puppetlabs.com/ [5] http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/83801a03c0fea665 -- PGP key: 7ED9 F7D3 6B10 81D7 0EC5 5C09 D7DC C8E4 3187 7DF0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110411083944.ga9...@schottelius.org
