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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110905/590d0d7e/attachment-0004.html>