[LRUG] Chef or Puppet

[Thom May]

In my experience the pain point is getting used to using configuration
management, rather than the complexity of the tool itself.
Chef and Puppet are pretty similar in terms of operation - you have
recipes/manifests that contain resources, which are the core unit of
automation for both tools.
In my experience, Chef is somewhat better to approach as a programmer,
but I've no experience of the Puppet ruby DSL (luke was pretty
unconvinced about the need for such a thing when I stopped using
Puppet).
Aren't there both Puppet and Chef talks next week anyway?
Cheers,
-Thom

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 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.
>
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