This is a huge consideration, especially if youre a big edu with a decade of dinosaurs. Modern ruby/gems, modern python, etc for Solaris 8, AIX, Tru64 ... kill me now. cf2 was easily built for our rainbow of platforms. cf3 looks just as promising (were pursuing an upgrade at the moment).
If I were a new site with a homogenous CentOS 5.x infrastructure (startup, etc), I would give non-cf solutions a fairer shake. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:59 PM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> wrote: > > Yves> Has anybody done, or can point me to a *rational* comparison > Yves> between those guys, or even one including commercial products? > > And include what infrastructure each requires? I'm perenially about > the deploy Cfengine at work, but I keep thinking I should look at > Puppet, BCFG and others. But some of them want newer python (pain on > older Sun boxes, but not a killer) or even stranger dependecies. > > One advantage of Cfengine is that it's just a few fairly > self-contained binaries to install for the boot-strap. I think. > > Like I said, I keep thinking about doing this and never quite making > the leap. And I should, since I've got around 300 compute nodes over > 4 sites that I'd like to manage better. > > John > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
