Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups

[Charles Duffy <cduffy@spamcop.net>]

Nicolas MASSE wrote:
> I have absolutely no experience with this, but during one of my 
> training courses, I found the following document :
>  - http://www.fernhilltec.com.au/~adrian/kara/kara.html

Thank you for the pointer; the document was worth a readthrough. That 
said, puppet provides a superset of kara's capabilities, is very 
actively maintained, and supports Gentoo as a target platform. 
Obviously, I'm looking for feedback here -- so if someone has tried 
working with puppet and found it inadequate it some respect or in need 
of further extensions, I'd love to hear about it -- but I think I'm 
fairly comfortable with my selection on that particular piece of the 
toolage.

Initial system setup (as opposed to post-install maintenance) is 
somewhat more of an open question, particularly in the context of 
desiring complete reproducibility.
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