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Hi Simon,
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Simon Strange wrote:
> I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm
> interested in using puppet to control it.
>
> In the past I've used CFEngine with success, so perhaps I should stick
> to what I know. But it does seem that puppet offers a few nice
> things, and is the new-cool. The only obvious problem is that
> documentation is harder to find.
Yeah.
> Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share?
I use puppet on around 20 machines (some real, some virtual). I use
it to provision my machines after they are installed from a template
image.
I never learned cfengine so it was an easier choice. If I knew
cfengine to begin with I probably would have stuck with that
though, and I might still advise that since most cfengine users seem
happy with it.
At a former dayjob we tried to introduce puppet, but it was a steep
learning curve and in the end existing cfengine knowledge won out.
I believe there was a hantslug presentation about puppet a while
back, sadly I was unable to attend and don't remember who gave it.
Perhaps it's on the wiki?
Cheers,
Andy
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