On 17/09/2014 03:30, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > We use bcfg2, and all I can say is to stay away. XML abuse runs rampant > in bcfg2. From what I've heard from other professional sysadmins, Puppet > is the favorite, but that's mostly conjecture.
XML. Ugh. OSSEC works like that too. The software itself works well but the config is painful. > > Alec > > On 09/16/2014 04:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/chef? >> >> What are your thoughts? >> >> I've made several attempts over the years to get puppet going but never >> really got it off the ground. Chef I stay away from (likely due to the >> first demo of it I saw and how badly that went....) >> >> Puppet seems to me a good product for a large site with 1000 hosts. >> Not so much for ~20 or so. Plus puppet's language and configs get large >> and hard to keep track of - lots and lots of directory trees with many >> things mentioning other things. (Nagios has the same problem if you >> start keeping host, services, groups and commands in many different files) >> >> I've stumbled upon ansible, it seems much better than puppet for >> smallish sites with good odds I might even keep the whole thing in my >> head at any one time :-) >> >> Anyone care to share experiences? >> >> >> > > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
