[LRUG] Chef or Puppet

[mudge]

That'd be "on Monday", not "in Monday". You proof read things a hundred
times...

On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, mudge <mudge at mudge.name> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As others have mentioned, I'm planning to cover Puppet in my
> presentation on Monday. I'll be walking through the setup of a server
> to run a typical Rails application and it's going to involve a decent
> amount of detail so you can get a feel for the Puppet Language.
>
> While I'll be using Puppet and Ruby, I completely agree with Thom:
> whether you choose Chef or Puppet, the key is embracing configuration
> management in the first place.
>
> Both Chef and Puppet seem to be garnering a lot of support in the Ruby
> community lately and, like George, I'll be loitering in the pub in
> Monday so please feel free to come up to me if I haven't managed to
> convince you.
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org> wrote:
>> On 2 August 2011 14:32, Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I remember I attended the Chef and Puppet talk last year (or may be it
was
>>> 2009). However I do not have a clear picture of which I should choose. I
>>> have been using Chef from yesterday but I find it complex and although
the
>>> site has many documents, I find myself lost. I saw that Puppet have a
new
>>> book written by on the the Lruggers, so I could buy that book and start
from
>>> one point and move forward.
>>
>> I've found Vagrant really useful; it lets you choose from Chef or
>> Puppet to configure new machines, so it's a good way to see which
>> system you prefer.
>>
>> http://vagrantup.com/
>>
>> After using it to try a few simple recipes, I realised just how
>> powerful Vagrant itself is for distributing images to developers and
>> designers, plus the potential for identical server installs, so I'm
>> now going crazy with a bunch of recipes.
>>
>> If Chef ends up being your thing, here are a couple of nice repos with
>> almost everything you're likely to need:
>>
>> https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks
>> https://github.com/37signals/37s_cookbooks
>>
>> --
>> Jay Caines-Gooby
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