On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
From: Christopher Webber [mailto:cweb...@cwebber.info] Full disclosure: I work for Chef nowOk, question for you. ;-) The first thing that tipped me toward puppet instead of chef was the lack of push. Has that changed?
Although it's not what the kewl kidz use these days, cfengine can push and pull over a secure channel. cfengine isn't flawless, but it has the neat philosophical starting point of "describe what you think normal should be for this system and tell me what to do when things diverge from that."
"Normal" can include the typical CM stuff like configuration files, but it can also be the presence or absence of specific user accounts, mount points, packages (on Linux systems, at least) -- or more variable things like load average (or load average based on time of day).
OTOH, there's a learning curve that's nontrivial. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W
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