links for 2008-06-20
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‘Our programs have left the desktop and found their new home on the web. System administration issues loom large.’ I agree with the thesis, but Puppet as a key component to fix this? it’s just cfengine in Ruby, snore
Edd Dumbill said,
June 21, 2008 @ 9:40 am
I would say it’s an incremental improvement over cfengine, see the discussion at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/CfengineVsPuppet
Either way, I don’t assert my argument rests entirely on it being Puppet, cfengine has made huge contributions in this area.
Thanks for the comment
– Edd
genehack said,
June 21, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
Agreed, it’s evolutionary-not-revolutionary, but unless you’ve used both to manage hundreds of systems, I’m not sure you get the full appreciation for how much nicer Puppet makes a large number of things.
Justin said,
June 23, 2008 @ 10:39 am
Hmm, sounds like I need to take another look at Puppet after all; in particular that comparison page is pretty compelling. Thanks for the comments guys!