[LRUG] Chef or Puppet

[Riccardo Tacconi]

On 5 August 2011 11:59, Richard Taylor <richard at richt.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Riccardo,
>
> I wrote conman (sorry it's a bit rough round the edges), it was out of
> frustration for the ridiculous learning curve to get puppet or chef working
> for small-ish deployments.
>
> I've since updated it and written a web-based gui for editing 'ingredients'
> and 'recipes' but haven't yet released it (I happily use it to manage about
> 20 servers for different projects) glad to share if you think it would be
> useful.
>
> I've also got a ever-growing suite of ingredients to publish that might get
> you started a bit quicker.
>


*that would be useful, thank you *




> Cheers,
>
> --
> Richard Taylor
>
> On Friday, 5 August 2011 at 10:52, Riccardo Tacconi wrote:
>
> conman (cool name) is really basic but I will try it and probably that's
> what I need to manage 3 servers. The problem is that the link to the
> ingredients is broken. Anyway I can easily create some ingredients by my
> self.
>
> On 2 August 2011 15:59, Kenneth Lee <kenfodder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I've been using this little project called "conman"
> https://github.com/moocode/conman
>
> I know the person who wrote it so it's really just a set of scripts, we
> just wanted a way to wrap essentially shell commands and write ruby all the
> way.
>
> It's not really ready for external use, but it might give you some thoughts
> of what you are trying to achieve first. We just wanted to get a server up
> and running from a clean install with 2-3 commands to having it fully
> configured and ready for capistrano deployment in essentially minutes and
> rolling our own achieved it. Our goal was to make idempotent install scripts
> to get EC2 instances prepped without making images.
>
> So my advice is play with both and see which fits best to your workflow,
> stick with conventional ways first to learn then ask why. Have fun.
>
> Ken
>
>  ------------------------------
>
>    Riccardo Tacconi <rtacconi at gmail.com>
>
> 2 August 2011 14:32
>
> 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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