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| Posted by TravisT-[SSS], 10-11-2012, 02:46 PM | | Just wondering if anyone uses Puppet for multiple server administration and how is it working for you?
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| Posted by Adam-AEC, 10-11-2012, 06:55 PM | | Not necessarily Puppet, but I've been using shoestrap lately with much success.
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| Posted by cartika-andrew, 10-11-2012, 06:58 PM | | Im interested in feedback as well. Really need a solution like this - have been looking at chef and puppet
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| Posted by prickett233, 10-11-2012, 07:24 PM | | I have used Puppet since its inception and its great.
It took a while to setup initially by writing our custom recipes to configure servers, but once that was done it makes deploying new servers a breeze and most importantly you can ensure a consistent configuration particularly when migrating between new and old servers.
In the beginning I found the templating language a bit restrictive in some cases, but once I got use to Puppet's way of thinking it hasn't been a problem. This has been improved a lot over the years though.
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| Posted by killbilljoy, 10-11-2012, 08:32 PM | | I looked into Puppet and Chef a while back. The DSL difference between the two is Puppet is more sysadmin friendly and Chef is more coder friendly.... Wondering if anyone that have used both can comment if that's true.
I'm more sysadmin than a programmer and wondering which would have lessen learning curve? Thanks.
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| Posted by prickett233, 10-11-2012, 08:47 PM | | You can use Ruby in the Puppet DSL to, to be more coder friendly as you suggest.
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Ruby_Dsl
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| Posted by vpsshell_co_uk, 10-12-2012, 06:18 AM | | I would definitely recommend Ansible
It was created by the Cobbler developer, it works over SSH and you can get started in minutes...
Last edited by vpsshell_co_uk; 10-12-2012 at 06:21 AM.
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| Posted by Adam-AEC, 10-12-2012, 10:21 AM | | Looks interesting!
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| Posted by moltar, 10-17-2012, 05:54 PM | | I'm looking into this right now and it is seriously one of the most interesting technologies I have seen in a while. Definitely could save a lot of setup pains once getting over the learning curve is over.
Lots of modules available on GitHub and Puppet Forge. Basically plug and play.
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