[nylug-talk] Large Scale Linux Administration

[Brandorr]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:27 PM, H. G. <tekronis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greets, folks.
>
>  You guys are probably getting sick of me by now, (and I imagine that I'm on
>  the killfiles of more than one NYLUG member by now), but I like to ask
>  around
>  because I'm interested in seeing how those with more knowledge and
>  experience
>  than I'll ever possess have decided to tackle these issues.
>
>  So as the title so subtly hints, I'd hear about how you folks have tackled
>  the issues
>  of large scale administration; such things like software configuration and
>  installation,
>  file/config synchronization accross masses of hosts.
>
>  So far I'm making do with Puppet.  Stubbing my toe every so often with it,
>  but I
>  surmise the issue is more PEBKAC than anything.  I've been eying BCFG2,
>  meaning
>  to give it a lookover one of these days.  Then there is the great and renown
>  cfengine,
>  but once I looked at Puppet, there was no looking back.
>
>  Then is the matter of doing this in a distributed manner between isolated
>  sites,
>  where perhaps your only means on pushing your configuration is via SSH or
>  some
>  VPN method.
>
>  So... how are you folks making do?
>  (Feel free to respond, even if it's just to ridicule and laugh derisively at
>  me. :] )
>  I'm curious.
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I had started working on doing a survey of the space about a year ago,
with the thought of developing my own solution... If you look at the
"Tasks" section there is a list of projects in the space... (That I
found). From my initial research it seemed that Puppet, which you are
using, was the closest to what I was looking for. Since your needs may
differ from mine at that time, I would take a look at some of the
other options as well. (Personally I am still using custom scripting.)

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