Dan Burkland wrote:
What would you recommend for a larger environment then?
I'm currently supporting the largest environment I've ever done, and we've got under 200 servers, I think. We've got a small package to handle all the configuration files, a system my manager wrote.
If I had to choose it would be puppet over spacewalk, though I may use spacewalk for the kickstart and inventory stuff.
Haven't played almost at all with kickstart.
Note that spacewalk requires oracle(last I checked) so depending on the size of your environment, there is that added cost.
Yes, it does, at least as of 0.5. Now, you can d/l Oracle XE (which is 10g, I think) for free, but it has some hard limits - 1G memory, and I think 4G data.
Myself I use cfengine, manage around 400 systems with it currently. Haven't had the time to check puppet out, heard it's pretty neat, but cfengine does everything I need and I know it pretty well(using it for the past 5 years) so no real incentive to learn something new at this point.
I've seen a lot of folks saying they used cfengine. <snip> mark