Hi, We use cfengine for such things at work (a mixed redhat/debian/freebsd and derivates environment). http://cfengine.com I particularly like the clear syntax used to describe the desired system state.
Greetings HP > Hi Folks, > > I'm getting ready to rebuild a small cluster (4 nodes, xen > virtualization) that I'm using to support a combination of hosted > services (mostly email lists, a few web sites) and some experimentation. > > To date, I've installed stuff manually, relied on a high-availability > stack (drbd, crm) to provide failover when things go south, and some > logwatch/alert scripts for monitoring everything. This time around, I'm > thinking about automating some of the install, configuration management, > and monitoring work. > > Which leads me to wonder: Those of you who run server farms on Debian, > what are you using for: > - initial o/s install and configuration (e.g., FAI, other things?) > - software install/update/configuration (chef, puppet, ?) > - virtual machine management > - user management (control panels, ...) > - overall management (nagios, webmin, ...) > > I'm sort of trying to get sense of what people actually use, and in what > combinations, rather than what's got the buzz this week. > > Thanks for anything you might share. > > Miles Fidelman > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > > -- > 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/50d863fd.6050...@meetinghouse.net > > -- 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/0eda7aa7e7d232468364c54d90c662c5.squir...@mail.spahan.ch
