[LRUG] Chef or Puppet

[Gerhard Lazu]

Richard,

If you go down the chef-server route, you will indeed end up with less hair,
but if you take chef-solo, it gets you there in a heartbeat.

A good boot script is the secret sauce that holds everything together, but
once you have that, there's really nothing to it.

If you'll be at LRUG, let's chat, I'm really interested in your GUI project.
If chef lacks something, that would be a half-decent GUI and a leaner server
component.

Gerhard


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:59 AM, 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.
>
> 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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