Maybe I should clarify my definition of 'cfg mgmt'. ~/bin/for-loop-to-molest-crontabs.ksh isn't 'cfg mgmt' in my eyes. I mean suites which perform 'cfg mgmt' (cfengine, puppet, bcfg2, lcfg, chef, etc). They were what I meant by "hey, it's not just puppet that declarative ... Aren't they all?"
On Tuesday, May 25, 2010, Tracy Reed <tr...@ultraviolet.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:04:52AM -0400, Nick Silkey spake thusly: >> Maybe Im being obtuse, but isnt ALL cfg mgmt inherently declarative? > > Most people are not used to using a declarative language and would > never consider implementing it that way. Not many PROLOG programmers > around anymore, http://learnprolognow.org notwithstanding. So when > people brew up their own config management it is almost always done > with a procedural language. Perl, python, and shell are what I > commonly see people using for implementing their home brew config > management. > >> I know that gets tossed around by the Puppet community as a unique win >> for it over others in the space. > > It seems to me that most people coming to puppet have never used > another config management tool and don't know that they tend to be > declarative so it is a unique win from their perspective. > > -- > Tracy Reed > http://tracyreed.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/
