Re:Why Puppet Should Manage Your Infrastructure
by nimrody on Monday March 07, 2011 @11:53PM
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A small question:
Assuming you use a single type and version of the OS (say ubuntu vXXX) -- Does it make sense to use the OS native packaging system instead of something like Puppet?
I.e., maintain a private packages repository where you add your custom packages, and have the various servers pull from that repository?
Obviously, this doesn't work if you have different types of servers - but for many servers configured identically, it should work.
Assuming you use a single type and version of the OS (say ubuntu vXXX) -- Does it make sense to use the OS native packaging system instead of something like Puppet?
I.e., maintain a private packages repository where you add your custom packages, and have the various servers pull from that repository?
Obviously, this doesn't work if you have different types of servers - but for many servers configured identically, it should work.