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It sounds like it's a lightweight version of the Foreman [1] with less integrations for virtual servers and configuration management? In any case I starred it t

by eLobato 13y ago

It sounds like it's a lightweight version of the Foreman [1] with less integrations for virtual servers and configuration management? In any case I starred it to keep track of future updates... Just as a curiosity, CERN uses something similar to this (LANDB) as its source of truth for the physical infrastructure. [2] [1] http://theforeman.org/ http://theforeman.org/ [2] http://landb.sourceforge.net/ http://landb.sourceforge.net/

gopalv 13y ago
This keeps getting reinvented, because using LDAP for this sucks. Google had slack, which mapped MAC address -> roles Yahoo had Igor, which did nearly the same (which used yinst, which had package activation for rollbacks) Then we saw Puppet/Chef do the same thing, except with conf files you can check in & version control. This was reinvented again in Yahoo! for hadoop with Zookeeper, for an even shorter life-span roles. Also now with zookeeper doing elections and such, within itself. Zynga used Zookeeper to build their own role management system, but added the Igor like features into it and started using it as an C&C master to push file/code updates with. I see that possibly several more people will reinvent it, because these solutions start out as something simple and grow out into an feature-creep mess & then someone reinvents an easier solution, rinse repeat. And all of them will be the right answer, except for people who are not using it :)
- njt 13y ago
  HackerDB was mentioned in the Q&A session after one of the config management talks at the Usenix LISA conference last week. I'm glad there are tools like this being actively developed. I think perhaps the reason they keep being redeveloped is that the current crop of open source CMDBs doesn't meet needs, so I gladly welcome projects like this.

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It sounds like it's a lightweight version of the Foreman [1] with less integrations for virtual servers and configuration management? In any case I starred it t

by eLobato 13y ago

gopalv 13y ago
This keeps getting reinvented, because using LDAP for this sucks. Google had slack, which mapped MAC address -> roles Yahoo had Igor, which did nearly the same (which used yinst, which had package activation for rollbacks) Then we saw Puppet/Chef do the same thing, except with conf files you can check in & version control. This was reinvented again in Yahoo! for hadoop with Zookeeper, for an even shorter life-span roles. Also now with zookeeper doing elections and such, within itself. Zynga used Zookeeper to build their own role management system, but added the Igor like features into it and started using it as an C&C master to push file/code updates with. I see that possibly several more people will reinvent it, because these solutions start out as something simple and grow out into an feature-creep mess & then someone reinvents an easier solution, rinse repeat. And all of them will be the right answer, except for people who are not using it :)
- njt 13y ago
  HackerDB was mentioned in the Q&A session after one of the config management talks at the Usenix LISA conference last week. I'm glad there are tools like this being actively developed. I think perhaps the reason they keep being redeveloped is that the current crop of open source CMDBs doesn't meet needs, so I gladly welcome projects like this.