Tom Browder wrote:
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If you have flocks of nearly identical servers in several
flavors, you want Puppet or Chef or something similar.
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Puppet has its own language for configuration.
Both take the approach that a long-running client on each
machine will periodically reach out to your central config
server and get an updated set of instructions, then execute
those instructions. That's a pull mechanism.
Ansible, on the other hand, relies on your laptop to reach out
to the client machines and do things to them. That's a push
Good point. Maybe using Ansible or Rex to control my main server and use Puppet from it as control for the other, very similar servers might be the way to go.
Thanks, Dan!
-Tom