Puppet (WAS Re: [SAGE] cfengine)

[Dan Stoner <dstoner@flmnh.ufl.edu>]

Neil Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:35:41AM -0500, Dan Stoner wrote:
>> Our only experience was evaluation/testing and our evaluator suggested
>> that we go with puppet instead.
> 
> Puppet looks interesting.  Are you using Puppet now?  Is anyone else
> using Puppet?

We are not yet using Puppet in production.

The big central IT unit here at the University of Florida uses cfengine 
for at least part of their operation.  But recent talk of declarative 
vs. imperative got some of them "excited" about Puppet.


Puppet is scary because it is a relatively new product.  This will be 
true until some of us start using it and talking about it.


My general feeling is that organizations that are already heavy into 
cfengine will probably not yet want to switch to something else such as 
puppet.  Any orgs that are just realizing that they need a configuration 
management tool should investigate all of the options, including Puppet.


  Dan Stoner
  Network Administrator
  Florida Museum of Natural History
  University of Florida