On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:50:31 -0500, Nick M. Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, I'm looking to turn my plugserver setup scripts [0] into > something more useful for the FBX Foundation and was wondering if any > Chef/Puppet experts were willing to help me transition the scripts to > those management tools? > > I'm sure I'll get to it, on my own, eventually, but this'll help it > happen much faster.
If you want to have configuration management that runs in a small amount of memory (which may well be a consideration on a plug server) then you should definitely consider cfengine3. http://blog.normation.com/2011/02/23/why-we-use-cfengine-memory-footprint/ Note, a lot of people have a deep-seated hatred of cfengine based on their experiences with cfengine2 (myself included) but cfengine3 is considerably different. I've been using it recently (so I may still be swept up in recent adoption euphoria) and am quite impressed. I'm using just the client, and distributing policy via git, which might well be an appropriate approach for FBX. Various people could develop different variations of policy, others could then declare that they trust that policy by signing tags, and then users would be able to decide on one or more signatures that they require on a tag before relying on an update, to avoid a central point compromise being able to do widespread damage. I'm willing to have a look at doing your scripts in cfengine3, but I'm far from expert at present. I do have some scripts (currently a bit site specific) for getting an OpenRD to the point that it is able to act as an install server (replacing uboot, configuring it, acting as PXE and d-i preseed server etc.) for a brand new OpenRD to get it to the point that cf3 is running, at which point the new box can be configured to act as an install server for an OpenRD ... Not having a guruplug I'm not sure how useful that might be though, since IIRC they don't have the nice USB JTAG built in, so one cannot make the assumption that JTAG's available. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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