I'm probably the odd man out but I don't use any particular system deployment / provisioning system. I work from base VM's I've built. Customize for a task and clone to scale.
That's worked for me for years but that's also because I haven't have to scale out for 100's of nodes in an on demand way. That's where I see things like Ansible, Chef, Puppet and other software having use but knowing me I would script that myself too.
I use my own internally developed tools for monitoring and security.
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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
From: "Paul Walker" <pjwalker76@gmail.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:58:50 AM
Subject: [PLUG] Automatic provisioning of highly secure linux environments
This is a pretty broad question, but there's a lot of talent on this list that I'd like to hear from..
Assuming that I need to set up an arbitrary number of server environments for serving web applications and would like to create a repeatable (scripted), highly secure process for doing so, I'm curious what people's go-to tools are and especially:
• is anyone using 3rd-party / paid services that they are happy with that include system provisioning, monitoring, firewalls and other strong security measures
• what software / frameworks do people use for deployment / provisioning / monitoring and security
Any thoughts / feelings are greatly appreciated..
Paul
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