Zach, Some thoughts inline:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Zach Buckholz <zach.buckh...@apollogrp.edu> wrote: > > This may sound like a confusing / trick question, so please bare with me. > > What problem(s) will puppet solve? Why would I use it? What problems do you want to solve? Seriously, if you don't have a solid answer to this question in your head, I bet you will have trouble making Puppet work for you. What frustrates you about doing things the old "ssh + loop over hosts" ad-hoc shell scripting way? What fires do you spend most of your time putting out? What things do you find yourself doing over and over and over again? Answer these questions and you'll be a good way towards pitching your proposal. > This is what I have come up with so far; (I wish the reductive labs site had > a wiki page for this) Add one! That's what wikis are all about! > What is the problem? > Unknown configurations > Environment is not dynamic > Messy > No central model > Hard to change > No consistency > Administration overhead > Reactive instead of proactive > Unorganized > Need scripts to work with linux and solaris > Hard to scale > > Can anyone add (non-technical explanations) to the above list? I think you've covered enough ground here to make a solid argument, as long as you remember to tie it all back to costs. Like this: Unknown configurations: Whenever a machine has a problem, I spend XX% of my time re-learning how that machine is set up before I can even consider what is causing the problem. If the configuration were consistent and self-documenting, it would free up XX hours of my time ($XX amount of money) to apply towards more important/revenue-driving tasks. That sort of thing gets managerial types fired up. Give them a dream of an Operations team that is involved in producing revenue rather than being a cost sink. My .02 --Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
