On 2 May 2012 19:42, Brian Gupta <brian.gu...@brandorr.com> wrote: > So having an internal debate on whether to use puppet managed debian > preseed files to configure packages prior to installation or > installing with no-config and using puppet to manage the config files > after the fact. > > The end of the discussion is that ideally one would use both, but if > one had to chose just one, it would be puppet managing the configs, > with the exception of certain packages that gain more benefit than > average by being configured through debconf. e.g. - Setting root mysql > password, so that debian maint. cron jobs can run without issue. > > Thoughts?
If you had to choose one then I would shoot for the latter. Consider that you want to maintain the state of the machine, not just it's initial installation. If one of those configs changes, because you need to roll out a new MySQL setting or someone gets naughty with vi(1), then you'll want to enforce that without going through the package installation again. -- 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.
