[CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

[Gabriel Tabares]

  On 27/08/2010 19:11, Ski Dawg wrote:
>>>> Stefano Sasso wrote:
>>>>> 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg<centos at skidawg.org>:
>>>>>> After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run
>>>>>> across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have any thoughts about either of these tools? Is there
>> <snip>
>>>> Here's another two cents: first part of last year, I was working with
>>>> Spacewalk, the released version of RedHat's satellite. While I was
>>>> fighting it tooth and nail, it went from 0.4 to 0.5. With that
>>>> experience,
>>>> I'd say *don't* bother about it....
>
> Thanks to everyone for the replies, and the links to articles for
> further research. I will definitely continue reading those.
>
> At this time, we are not interested in Spacewalk because of the Oracle
> db requirement, but I will investigate the other options as well.
Have you looked into bcfg2? Of all the options have looked into, it 
looks like the best for what I want.

My experience with Spacewalk is that is not ready yet and that it takes 
too much effort to set it up. It will probably be worth it but I can't 
dedicate the time it would take to set it up.