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I wasted several days trying to get a good puppet setup. In the end it still needs more work, and the deploy system is complicated. I only have 4 boxes to man
by crucialfelix 14y ago
I wasted several days trying to get a good puppet setup. In the end it still needs more work, and the deploy system is complicated. I only have 4 boxes to manage.
Ansible looks great. Much lighter weight but it can still scale up.
Puppet and chef would both benefit by supporting single run light weight modes of usage.
- pindi 14y agoPuppet does have a single run mode of usage: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/apply.html http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/apply.html I use it to manage just 5 servers, with a Fabric script that rsyncs the manifests up to the servers then runs `puppet apply` to apply the changes.
- crucialfelix 14y agotrue, and that's exactly what I was doing. rsync and then run puppet apply. that's just a lot of grinding if you only made one little typo. and I see here I have capfiles and a system to bootstrap a new server. way too much stuff for this scale. (4 servers)