bcfg2

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:15 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 08:58 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:14 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:23:31PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > >>> Another option to look into for configuration management:
> > 
> > Has anyone looked at puppet?
> > http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/
> 
> I haven't looked at Puppet in depth, but one con is that it's written in
> Ruby (not that there's anything wrong with that).  But there may be
> license issues with bcfg2 so that may be an option as well.
> 
> > Or cfengine for that matter, though I'm getting dissatisfied with it myself.
> 
> I haven't looked at cfengine yet either, but from what I've seen it's
> cryptic configuration is a major con.
> 

What was wrong with glump and friends?

It's simple, no cryptic formatting of files or craziness. The scripting
language that runs on the hosts is whatever you want it to be.

-sv