Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines
Hey Laurence,
we [0] are actually managing around 300+ hosts here [1]
with Debian preseed and cdist [2].
We used to use fai [3] and puppet[4] before, but moved
migrated away from both:
- fai is great and easy to use, but already does way more then
we need: We wanted to have a minimal system bootstrapped, that
will be afterwards configured by out configuration
management system (puppet/cdist). Seperating these steps gave
us a more flexible and cleaner way. Though fai is still great
software to begin with (has easier disk setup than preseed)
- We dropped puppet for several reasons, see [5].
Cheers,
Nico
[0] https://sans.ethz.ch/
[1] http://www.systems.ethz.ch/, http://www.cbrg.ethz.ch/
[2] http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/
[3] http://fai-project.org/
[4] http://www.puppetlabs.com/
[5] http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/83801a03c0fea665
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