I've decided it's time to step forth out of the stone ages and get into CM.
As I understand it, the major contenders are puppet, chef, ansible, and salt. (And optionally vagrant on top of it all). Not having the experience of using and understanding each and every one of them, I decided to start digging into puppet - just because people talking about it seem the most positively aligned with what I want to do. However, when I start browsing their site, reading documentation, it's immediately overwhelming and mind-numbing. Funnily, I googled for "getting started with puppet" and came up with this: http://puppetlabs.com/presentations/getting-started-puppet It's funny because they don't have this sort of thing front and center, their website is organized as to be completely overwhelming and mind numbing as mentioned above. But anyway.... I assume a lot of people here have experience with these things. If you think I'm not starting out in the "right" direction, or would like to offer any other advice, please let me know. I am primarily interested in making a small number of machines standardized, recreatable, manageable. If I run a production server on amazon and I want to migrate it somewhere else, I'd like to know I easily can. And when the current OS becomes EOL, I'd like to know I have a sane path for recreating the same services on the new OS that's available at the time, and stuff like that.
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