From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hps9U-0000m4-Od for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 20:37:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4KKag7M003424; Sun, 20 May 2007 20:36:42 GMT Received: from isgenesis.com (smtp1.isgenesis.com [168.215.170.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4KKYkdF001060 for ; Sun, 20 May 2007 20:34:46 GMT Received: from [168.215.170.1] (HELO [10.222.0.214]) by isgenesis.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.5) with ESMTPS id 2559643; Sun, 20 May 2007 15:34:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4650B0D8.7080409@spamcop.net> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:34:32 -0500 From: Charles Duffy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicolas MASSE CC: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups References: <4650937E.80301@spamcop.net> <20070520222036.77vwf3haaswsscgw@imp.itix.fr> In-Reply-To: <20070520222036.77vwf3haaswsscgw@imp.itix.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3a1d7dc6-c1af-4df0-8e76-6e09db8233c2 X-Archives-Hash: 6139428f6610bc4c7699ba3bc01703a3 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. -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list