[TriLUG] Configuration management

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I remember Luke Kanies from freenode #cfengine back in the day.  If he
has written a cfengine competitor, I'm definitely going to look into it
-- he has a real understanding of cfengine's shortcomings.

[5 minutes later]

Yup, looks like he nailed it.  XML-RPC instead of cfservd?  Written in
ruby?  Rock on...

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Cliffy wrote:
> May I suggest to look at puppet. There is a small group of Red Hat 
> people helping and reviewing puppet. In general puppet is getting good 
> reviews as being better (for some) than cfengine.
>
> http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/
>
> Cliff.
>
>
> Shawn Hood wrote:
>   
>> Figured I'd ping the list and get some advice.  I'm working at a
>> company that running around 30-40 local and colo'd servers.  Some of
>> these machines are jboss servers, build servers, web servers, etc.
>>
>> While I used cfengine some time ago, I was wondering what has
>> developed in the past while.  What are you guys using, and what kind
>> of experiences have you had with these packages?
>>
>> Shawn
>>   
>>