On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:45:20AM -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > Has anybody done, or can point me to a *rational* comparison between those > guys, or even one including commercial products?
There was a panel at LISA a few years ago that featured the creators of bcfg2, cfengine, LCFG, and puppet. The answer to pretty much every question came down to one of two things: 1) It depends on who you ask (and that's true for both creators and users of any given tool), and 2) it depends on what you're trying to do, how you're trying to do it, or how you think about the problem. Given that this doesn't seem to have changed now that chef, func, rPath, Opsware, and a few others have come on the scene, I think the answer to your question is the same answer to the question of which is the best diet: It's whatever one you will follow/stick to. So . . . read the docs, look at the examples, see which one seems to make the most sense to you, then plunge in. I think it's safe to say that pretty much any of them will be better than not using a config. management system, and will almost certainly be better than whatever shell scripts you've hacked together. AdamM _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
