[CentOS] Kickstarting several *different* setups

Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 21:14:44 UTC 2015


On 01/20/2015 08:41 AM, Tom Grace wrote:
> I would suggest that the "right way" would be to kickstart all your
> machines the same way, and then use a configuration management tool
> (like Puppet or Chef) to customize them

Seconded.

Personally, I recommend either ansible or bcfg2 over other tools. 
Puppet has a larger user base, but when I talk to users at conferences 
(such as LISA), ansible and bcfg2 users tend to like their tools, while 
an awful lot of people dislike Puppet but use it anyway due to inertia.



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