From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QOoWI-0004bw-Sk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 May 2011 10:07:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D6411C478 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 10:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C79C1C00D for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 09:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so5580905fxm.40 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 02:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.75.15 with SMTP id w15mr3366942faj.134.1306228777241; Tue, 24 May 2011 02:19:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.147.207 with HTTP; Tue, 24 May 2011 02:19:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [109.231.205.206] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:19:37 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Managing multiple servers. From: Robert Bridge To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2c84b42f99b5c8cac30433a2dd3b338e On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > So, do you think it will be wise to create a management tool > explicitly for Gentoo (with its quirks such as ~masks, USE flags, > portage/env, and so-on), or just rely on Puppet? Without commenting on the wisdom of creating a gentoo specific management tool, one observation I would make is that Puppet and Chef are both written in Ruby. For some, this won't be an issue, but for others, the requirement for Ruby and Python on production servers will be a concern.