On Apr 25, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Chris Snell <k...@employees.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Paul Graydon wrote: > >> On 04/25/2013 10:58 AM, John Stoffel wrote: >>> Chef, puppet, etc all seemed to want me to first install python or >>> ruby or something else that wasn't part of my base systems. This has >>> changed over time, and esp as I've finally moved away from Solaris 8 >>> in a big way. >> Chef introduced the Omnibus installer last year, which improves things quite >> drastically on that score. The necessary chef-client and ruby environment >> gets installed nicely self-contained in /opt. >> I believe, based on developer conversations on twitter, that Puppet is >> working on similar right now. Its certainly made life easier here for >> deployments of chef to our boxes. > > This is actually one of the selling points of the enterprise offering from > Puppet. Everything (puppet, hiera, puppetdb, mcollective, ruby, etc.) is all > bundled into a single installer, and works out of the box. Having said that, Puppet offers yum & apt repo's for the open source version of Puppet. Our kickstart just has puppet in it, and it works. The base ruby is the system one, for RHEL / Centos. They build a decent amount of options, too. Matthew Barr mb...@mbarr.net c: (646) 727-0535 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
