I'm considering the opportunity of adding (basic) Solaris support to my modules ( www.example42.com) but before starting I'd like to gather some info about best practices and standards. I've to admit that I've not a great working Solaris experience, so I actually don't know how people use it, what versions are more used and so on.
So let's begin with few points: - What version? I'm tempted to begin only with Solaris 10, in order to avoid too many complications. Question is... does this makes sense? What versions of Solaris are currently most used? Since I believe that the best approach to puppettization is to replicate on new machines the current envrionments without installing Puppet on existing production servers, does make sense the assumption that people would generally upgrade their older boxes to brand new Solaris 10 setups? I know that mileage may vary, but whatever better informed opinion is welcomed. - What packages? This might become a nightmare... there are different packages repositories, blastwave, openCSW, Sunfreeware... , to make modules that manage the same software from different sources might be a troublesome and I would like to stick to one. Does this makes sense? What's the most used / updated /large package repository out there? Do you use any of these on production environments? - What package manager? Can I assume that (almost) everybody uses (in 2011) pkgutil to install software on Solaris? If not, what are the alternatives? - Existing modules for Solaris? Has anyone published Puppet modules for Solaris? Can you link them here, for reference and inspiration... There questions might appear particularly naive to a more experienced Solaris sysadmin but I have to start from some basic points and as usual, "better ask to the experts"... Thanks for any feedback you might want to leave on these questions and to whatever advice you might give about Puppet on Solaris. If someone if interested is collaborating on this effort, just contact me.... All the best Al -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/yi-nY02p06AJ. 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.
