On 9 Mar 2010, at 9:49 pm, Niek Timmers wrote: > Dear *, > > I am a student of the University of Amsterdam, currently enrolled in the > System & Network Engineering Master program. At the moment I am doing a > small project concerned Cfengine which involves looking into the > usability of this solution. Especially I am interested in what was the > reason to implement Cfengine and what was difficult doing this. Hereby I > would like to ask you to fill in a this survey. > > 1) How many servers do you manage with Cfengine?
About 2300 > 2) What is the level of configuration heterogeneity in this environment? As homogeneous as possible. > 3) Why was Cfengine needed? How else do you maintain configuration on thousands of machines?! Some sort of configuration management system is an absolute necessity. > 4) What was difficult or a problem during the implementation? Getting my head into the "cfengine way" took quite a lot of practice. We're still using cfengine 2 at the moment, and I've been putting off upgrading because I think there's going to be a similar period of getting my head into the cfengine 3 way. I've tried reading the introduction docs two or three times now, and I still find myself looking at the examples, and going "huh?" The new syntax just doesn't make intuitive sense to me, and there's quite a lot of new jargon (promisers, promisees and so on) that I still haven't got my head around. But that's probably just me. > 5) Does Cfengine limit you in configuring your servers? cfengine 2 definitely has some limitations. Many of these are addressed in cfengine 3. I can't speak for whether I'll encounter any limitations in the new version. > 6) Do you miss any features in Cfengine? Same answer as (5). Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
