On 09/10/2011 08:28 PM, Erlend Leganger wrote:
On 10 September 2011 17:39, <no-re...@cfengine.com
<mailto:no-re...@cfengine.com>> wrote:
See:
http://www.puppetcookbook.com/
http://forge.puppetlabs.com/
I enjoyed the puppetcookbook above, it was nice and too the point. But
there is a very similar thing in cfengine ([1]), explaining how to do
much of the same tasks as in the cookbook.
[1]: http://cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-solutions.html
There is also Neil Watson's cookbook. I think the difference between
Puppet and CFEngine is that we offer the tools to create such
abstractions (e.g.with methods) rather the forcing you into one and only
one hardwired form that you end up having to modify by code. The
purpose of the standard library is to make examples of such abstractions
that anyone can use.
PS: I have not seen Puppet before, but I noticed immediately that it
seems to have more higher level constructs than Cfengine. For example,
to add a new host you use host{} in Puppet, in Cfengine you edit
/etc/hosts; to add a new group you use group{} in Puppet, in Cfengine
you edit /etc/group etc. Both approaches has its merits, I guess, but
for beginners, it's probably easier to get going with Puppet. And
Puppet allows dangling/trailing commas, something I as a Perl geek
miss in Cfengine, hehe...
Where does this myth come from that CFEngine does not allow trailing
commas? I think you will find that this has been the case since 3.0.x
where x is a small number.
M
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