Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > I'm really not interested in puppet or chef for this purpose, for about > a zillion reasons. Here's the simplest most important one: > > Config management is great, if you're building new systems, and especially > if you're building and removing a lot of systems from production on a regular > basis, and you own it all from scratch. Not great if you inherited a small > number of undocumented customer facing servers which are already in > production.
Actually, both Puppet and Chef will let you manage as much or as little of a system as you want; there's no need to manage the whole system. Want just a few files in /etc? No problem. As you find more files you care about, you can add them one at a time. You may have other perfactly valid reasons for not wanting to use Puppet or Chef, but they both do just fine managing a few files on existing systems. Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
