[LRUG] Chef or Puppet

[mudge]

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
>
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