[CentOS] Cobbler: Opinion

Tue May 1 19:37:49 UTC 2007
Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com>

On Tue, 1 May 2007, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last time I was on Karanbir mentioned Puppet, -what do you all think of 
> Cobbler?
>
> I plan to deploy one of the suggestions this week since it looks like i'll be 
> dealing with 2000 centos systems instead of the few hundred I had predicted.
>

It's not either or.  Cobbler manages the installation infrastructure
(kickstart files, repos, pxebooting, etc).  Puppet is a configuration
and management scripting language.  The idea would be to use cobbler +
puppet (or cfengine, or similar) to either customize the builds, or
manage them after they are built.

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