[BBLISA] Config management survey

[John Stoffel]

John> I'm going to open something of a can of worms here:

Oh goody!  Cause I want to open this can of worms at my $WORK too, but
getting buyin is the hard part...

John> - Which configuration management software are you currently using?

Looking at cfengine3, because it has so few requirements to run on
older Solaris systems that are critical to us.  Open to Puppet or Chef

John> We're at a place where we need to rebuild our CF
John> infrastructure.  We've gone from naive Puppet users to slightly
John> less naive Puppet users, but there's a lot of room for
John> improvement.  I have the most experience with Puppet, but before
John> we go whole-hog Puppet, I'd like to get everyone's thoughts on
John> the matter.

I'm curious about how you made the leap from no CfgMgt to some CfgMgt
at your site.  That's what I think is missing in a bunch of tutorials
is a good example of how you can quickly deploy something like cf3 to
solve a problem NOW, then it lets you slowly expand.  Esp with first
starting out on something that isn't critical or will bring the box
down if it's screwed up, but which makes life simpler.

John