[TriLUG] Curious

[jason tower]

i'm using cobbler+ansible at $JOB (replacing a puppet setup) and it's 
terrific.  cobbler handles the bare metal OS install and puts the 
necessary ssh key in place, then ansible takes over and automates 
packages, configs, etc.

puppet is arguably more powerful and flexible but for smaller or less 
complex environments ansible kicks ass.  its also VERY easy to learn and 
deploy, even a novice can be pushing out ad-hoc commands in a matter of 
minutes and simple playbooks within half an hour.

On 10/26/2014 04:57 PM, Matt Whitlow wrote:
> ssh on steroids sounds great to me, ssh is a well working and secure tool
> that does what it needs to. Also you just said it is bad for automating
> deployments but you like how it automates things.
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Why? It's Ssh on steroids it's only benefits are no client on the remote
>> box and easier learning curve, or at least that I can see.
>>
>> But if you're trying to automate deployments, I don't see it as the right
>> tool.
>>
>> One thing I really like about salt, is that it's asynchronous, and has a
>> pub/sub event system so you can automate things like, oh I'm a new web
>> server add me to the LB, or hey traffic is less remove me from the load
>> balancer.
>>
>> Matt P
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Mainguy <jon at jmainguy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ansible > *
>>>> On Oct 26, 2014 4:09 PM, "Matt Pusateri" <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Having used CFengine, Puppet and Chef, I’m really impressed by Saltstack
>>>> and it’s architecture.  I highly recommend adding it to the list of
>> ones to
>>>> investigate.
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Z-man <czdrummer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> So I saw the question about Puppet and just have to ask, how widely
>> used
>>>> is
>>>>> Puppet?  I am investigating it along with other librarian products to
>> tie
>>>>> into Subversion for deployment and was wondering about its adoption.
>>>> Also,
>>>>> if you use it, could you tell me what other products did you
>> investigate
>>>>> before deciding upon Puppet?
>>>>>
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