Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Evan Hisey wrote:
>
>>> Regardless of if puppet is intended to manage multiple similar hosts, it is
>>> still useful when you have a smaller number of unique hosts.
>>>
>>> If every host is completely unique then you get one some benefits of puppet:
>>> * you have a single place to review your configuration
>>> * you can make changes without having to do it by hand
>>> * puppet checks nothing has changed, and puts it back if something has
>>>
>>> However, I bet that all your hosts are a *lot* more alike than you think:
>>> * you probably use the same web server (apache, or so), and *mostly* have
>>> it
>>> set up the same way on each machine, right?
>>> * you probably use the same MTA on most machines
>>> * you probably use the same log watching and checking stuff on 'em all
>>> * you probably have similar needs for installing PHP and some extra PHP
>>> modules, which are usually configured more or less the same.[1]
>>> * you probably do a bunch of "install mysql, configure like this" stuff the
>>> same on each host.
>>
>> You forgot a biggy bonus of puppet, no matter what size you support. I have
>> several small ( as in 1-3) groups of very different machines, and with
>> puppet I can rebuild them very quickly on when they need to be replaced or
>> upgraded. doing it by hand takes most of a day or 2.
>
> +1 to this.
*nod* Thanks, Even, and Patrick: I did miss that, and it *is* really useful.
Even if it isn't complete it can still be a big help.
Daniel
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