Re: [PLUG] Puppet vs Chef?...

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

JP,

> You should have hit PLUG W last week, or you can hit PLUG N in 
> November and see Kyle's talk, or grab his slides:

Yeah, I've already talked to Kyle, and read his slides.  He's the one
who convinced me to look into such tools in the first place.  Thanks,
Kyle!  Had to miss his PLUG West talk, but hope to make the Central or
North one.

Thanks for the links!

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JP Vossen wrote:
> On 09/25/2010 03:00 PM, plug-request@lists.phillylinux.org wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:50:44 -0400
> > From: Fred Stluka<fred@bristle.com>
> >
> > Any thoughts on pros/cons of Puppet vs Chef as tools for managing
> > the configurations of Linux servers?
> >
> > I've Googled lots of articles from people I don't know, discussing
> > the differences, I've read a good bit about each, and I've installed
> > and played with Chef (and soon Puppet), but I'm still interested to
> > hear about direct experiences of any of the PLUG members, especially
> > if you've used both.
>
> You should have hit PLUG W last week, or you can hit PLUG N in 
> November and see Kyle's talk, or grab his slides:
> * 
> http://github.com/kyleburton/presenting-chef-solo/blob/master/pres-chef-solo.pdf 
>
> * http://github.com/kyleburton/presenting-chef-solo
>
> One minor turn-off for me was that Chef is all Ruby, where I'd prefer 
> Perl.  :-)
>
> See also:
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfengine
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_%28software%29
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_%28software%29
> * 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software 
>
>
>
> Let us know how it works out,
> JP
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