[BBLISA] Config management survey

[Nick Cammorato]

Replicate what you have.  Don't get fancy.

So in puppet, use file resources(or equivalent) to place your current
configs on your machines, start and keep running the services that are
currently running, etc. Don't go class crazy or jump immediately into the
forge.  Gradually refactor that into a more advanced deployment as you have
time / maintenance windows / downtime tolerance - or can adequately lab /
test.

If you want to go whole hog immediately - ideally you do it parallel to
what you have as part of a new build out.

--Nick


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:03 PM, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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