Re: [gentoo-server] Managing multiple servers.

[Matthew Marlowe <matt@deploylinux.net>]

> 
> 	I've become a huge Puppet nerd over the last year. I'm not managing
> Gentoo on it, but it's supported and Puppet Labs does seem to fix Gentoo
> bugs in a reasonable time.
> 

+1 for puppet

Some other things of note:
* #puppet channel on freenode is very active and friendly.
* Puppet devs seem to be open to accepting "gentoo specific" patches, although 
they admit their user base is much more focused on binary distributions and 
they may need others to spearhead gentoo specific work.
* A good amount of puppet development occurs on github and can be followed
* If there isn't already a gentoo specific module for something you want, it 
isn't hard at all to write your own or to fork from someone else's code via 
github/etc

In my mind, puppet is a very good match for gentoo servers, because once again 
it allows extensive customizations/flexibility, is community driven, and the 
user base is very active and growing (pretty much the reasons I chose to use 
gentoo for servers in the first place).  I've also been using it for a few 
years now, and while I have to constantly work around the binary distribution 
biases inherit to it, it has yet to let me down and is generally silently 
reliable.  That it integrates ruby and git are also, in my mind, advantages.

Matt