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Machinery – A Systems Management Toolkit for Linux

27 points by ealexhudson 12y ago

blutoot 12y ago
It would be awesome to see a few short examples/tutorials how it integrates with some of the mainstream configuration management systems like Puppet or Salt. Awesome website!
olefoo 12y ago
That is a very nice website. What distinguishes this software from puppet? If someone isn't running SLES what would push them toward this solution?
- pliu 12y ago
  If I understand correctly from reading the man page[1], unlike Puppet there's no server. You just run a command line tool on a node to inspect or create a "system description". You can then export and deploy a description to create repeatable systems. In this regard I think it's similar to what Blueprint[2] does (or did I guess since Blueprint seems dead now). So it's a lot more lightweight tool and has many less features than Puppet, certainly. Another cool thing is you can use Machinery to build images and deploy to Openstack. Where I work I spent a pretty long time building similar tooling for Xenserver. Sure would have been nice to have just been able to say "oh there's a thing for that". I'm excited to try this tool out and see what it does. I think Machinery only works on SLES and opensuse right now. I didn't see any mention of other distros. [1] http://machinery-project.org/manual.html http://machinery-project.org/manual.html [2] http://devstructure.com/blueprint/ http://devstructure.com/blueprint/
- hamburglar 12y ago
  If the owners are reading: the site is completely unusable on android browser. Viewport will not scroll or zoom. I can get the side nav to pop out, but none of the menu items does anything.
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anemic 12y ago
I like the fact that it scans a live system and reports back packages and files that are not in packages. This way one can quickly check the functionality of a server and could also be helpful in multitude of other situations such as decomissioning. As this is currently only SUSE-specific I'd like to see a more general solution that produces a standardized output and this output could then be turned into puppet/chef etc. scripts automatically. EDIT: blueprint seems to do just that, but the website is not as nice.

27 points by ealexhudson 12y ago

It would be awesome to see a few short examples/tutorials how it integrates with some of the mainstream configuration management systems like Puppet or Salt. Awesome website!

olefoo 12y ago

That is a very nice website. What distinguishes this software from puppet? If someone isn't running SLES what would push them toward this solution?

pliu 12y ago
If I understand correctly from reading the man page[1], unlike Puppet there's no server. You just run a command line tool on a node to inspect or create a "system description". You can then export and deploy a description to create repeatable systems. In this regard I think it's similar to what Blueprint[2] does (or did I guess since Blueprint seems dead now). So it's a lot more lightweight tool and has many less features than Puppet, certainly. Another cool thing is you can use Machinery to build images and deploy to Openstack. Where I work I spent a pretty long time building similar tooling for Xenserver. Sure would have been nice to have just been able to say "oh there's a thing for that". I'm excited to try this tool out and see what it does. I think Machinery only works on SLES and opensuse right now. I didn't see any mention of other distros. [1] http://machinery-project.org/manual.html http://machinery-project.org/manual.html [2] http://devstructure.com/blueprint/ http://devstructure.com/blueprint/
hamburglar 12y ago
If the owners are reading: the site is completely unusable on android browser. Viewport will not scroll or zoom. I can get the side nav to pop out, but none of the menu items does anything.

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anemic 12y ago

I like the fact that it scans a live system and reports back packages and files that are not in packages. This way one can quickly check the functionality of a server and could also be helpful in multitude of other situations such as decomissioning. As this is currently only SUSE-specific I'd like to see a more general solution that produces a standardized output and this output could then be turned into puppet/chef etc. scripts automatically. EDIT: blueprint seems to do just that, but the website is not as nice.