On Sep 5, 2011 2:47 AM, "James Nguyen" <james at callfire.com> wrote: > > I'm managing two data centers and some instances on rackspace cloud servers. Currently running Cobbler+Puppet+Mcollective. So far it's been great for a team of one, myself. > > At the moment I'm looking into either using Aeolus or Openstack to bridge the gap of my data centers and the public cloud still keeping Puppet+Mcollective in the mix and seeing if Cobbler is still needed. > > Anyone out there tried both Aeolus *and* Openstack yet? I'm looking to supplement my research on these two private/public cloud tools. =) > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Marian Marinov <mm at yuhu.biz> wrote: >> >> On Thursday 21 July 2011 18:36:17 Devin Reade wrote: >> > --On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:02:42 PM -0700 RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> >> > >> > wrote: >> > > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org> wrote: >> > >> It should be considered as complementing the automated config >> > >> management tools like cfengine et al, not as a replacement for >> > >> them (they're doing different jobs). >> > > >> > > That's not entirely fair. A little shell scripting and pdsh and pdcp >> > > can certainly do everything cfengine/puppet can do >> > >> > I wasn't referring to pdsh/pdcp; I was referring to pconsole. The >> > reason I said complementing is that sometimes it is good to have >> > stuff under a configuration management system like cfengine/puppet, >> > but sometimes you need to run ad-hoc commands, in an identical >> > fashion, on lots of similar machines, which pconsole is good at >> > (subject to the caveats I previously mentioned). >> > >> > I made no comments on pdsh/pdcp at all, and make no claims on where >> > it fits in the spectrum. >> > >> > Devin >> > >> You can actually achieve the same functionality of pdsh/pdcp and pconsole with >> a quite simple bash script :) >> >> http://multy-command.sourceforge.net/ >> >> I think it is a matter of what the admin will prefer to do. When you have a >> lot of identical machines, sometimes it is better to have cfengine/puppet, but >> sometimes it just an overkill to use them if you are the only one >> administrating those machines. >> >> cfengine and puppet have a very good place on machines that are administered >> by a team of people. >> >> But solutions like pdsh/pconsole and multy-command, in my opinion are more >> suitable when there are only one or two guys administering those machines. >> >> >> Marian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > -- > > james h nguyen | lead systems architect | www.callfire.com | 1.949.625.4263 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > +1 for Puppet. I manage only around 20 servers all running a mix of CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 very well with Puppet. The initial configuration and understanding for it is daunting but WELL worth it in the end. Also for system provisioning ( kickstart and pxe) look at Foreman, which uses Puppet after initial installation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110905/d8182b1c/attachment-0005.html>