You may be interested to know that the open-source Puppet product _does_
work with AIX; I imagine the Puppet Enterprise support is providing the
surrounding tooling to get everything off the ground for you (e.g. Ruby
packages). This link[1] has a recent description of the necessary steps.
- Adam Compton
[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/NX2IlfXtN_s
On 10/6/15 10:14 AM, Steve Potter wrote:
Oh, great and powerful big brain,
I've recently started a new contract position where I've been asked to help
modernize the Unix engineering teams practices. This environment has grown
primarily by acquisition and is pretty much 10 years behind the times. It's a
mixed AIX (static, 150 workloads) and RedHat (strategic, growing, about 350
workloads) environment.
They still think of themselves as a mom and pop shop, everything is done by
hand and lots of one off scripts, even account management is handled locally on
the servers. They are making some strides from an operational standing, they
have Zabbix for their primary monitoring, Tripwire Professional is being
installed for security on regulatory systems, Splunk had recently been
purchased for centralized logging and management, and they are deciding on an
AD bridge solution (Dell or Centrify, although they are leaning towards Dell).
Management has suddenly gotten dashboard happy and want to be able to easily
see what servers are company with regulations (SOX, PCI) best practices and/or
internal standards, which have been patched recently, etc.
The two places they still need the most help are provisioning and configuration
management. They have no real tools or standards in place. They've got NIM and
Satellite 5 setup, but more often than not, they clone an existing system and
then reconfigure it by hand. My main focus is CM for both, then provisioning
for Linux since AIX is pretty static. I was initially looking at using Puppet,
then started looking to add either Razor or Foreman for provisioning. At Ohio
Linux Fest this weekend, I learned that Satellite 6 is Foreman, Puppet, and
Katello.
However, as I started digging a little deeper, I realized that AIX is only
supported with Puppet Enterprise, which is not integrated and compatible with
Satellite. I could switch the design to PE, buy since they already pay for
Satellite, it seems wasteful. I know Foreman/S6 can plug in other tools like
chef or ansible, so that might be a way to go instead.
What do others do in this kind of mixed environment?
-spp
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