On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:00 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:

Ansible, Bcfg2, Chef, Cobbler, Puppet, and Salt; I notice that Spacewalk is not mentioned. Any particular reason that it gets no recommendations?

I think with Spacewalk you are pretty much committed to not using anything but Fedora or RHEL derivatives - and quite a bit of overhead to get started. I'd prefer infrastructure that is more flexible.

What about CFEngine? Any comments on this one?

I haven't looked at it for a long time, but my impression was that it gave way to much autonomy to each node. In our scheme of things, if a node is not communicating correctly on the network the best thing to happen is for it to die quietly and let the redundant systems fill in, We don't want it trying to fix itself when things aren't working as expected.