[LRUG] Chef or Puppet

[George Ornbo]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 03:32:16PM +0200, Riccardo Tacconi wrote:
> However I do not have a clear picture of which I should choose. 

I looked at both before choosing Puppet, mainly because I found more
resources on it. A plus for Chef is that it has a pure Ruby DSL. Puppet
is moving to pure Ruby but I don't think it has been fully implemented
yet. 

> I have been using Chef from yesterday but I find it complex and although the
> site has many documents, I find myself lost. 

I also found it a steep learning curve to start with on Puppet. I
purchased Pulling Strings with Puppet which was worth the investment.
Buy a book - it is a complex subject. 

> I could buy that book and start from one point and move forward.

You could also attend next month's meetup[1] where there is a talk on
Puppet and another on Chef. I suspect there will be a few sys admin bods
there - I'd be happy to share my knowledge of getting going with Puppet
in the pub!

[1] http://lrug.org/meetings/2011/07/18/august-2011-meeting/

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