qa machine management

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 31 March 2012 15:29, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:25:35 -0600
> Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>

> One concern I have with bcfg2 is lack of momentum. Since, for all
> intents and purposes it is just puppet but in python.
>

Well I am more worried about xml versus playbooks. in any case I think
I will go with ansible .. will see how much I can learn while on
Percacet (hey its QA environment right before release.. how bad could
it be :)?)

> One of the reasons I've been looking so hard at ansible is simple - it
> doesn't require a client-side. It's all push-based. From a logging and
> quietness-standpoint it should be significantly better especially for
> our environment where if a host cannot reach lockbox01 we know we
> cannot do anything else.
>
> -sv



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