There is one thing that will completely fix configuration management in Linux, and that is: all software projects should bundle pre-cooked CM recipes. The problem of course is which CM tool should they support?
Until one tool ends up winning over all (and it does look like Puppet is in the lead) we should probably just start a wiki with "community approved" examples for all popular server software in each CM tool's config language. With some prodding the 3rd party vendors might just pick them up and package them, making it a de-facto standard that ships with the distro. Well, one can dream anyway.
Re:Configuration Management Software Sucks
by kev009 on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @01:54PM
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I've been playing with Blueprint (which someone suggested on my comments) + Puppet and am liking this combo quite a bit more than anything else so far.
There is one thing that will completely fix configuration management in Linux, and that is: all software projects should bundle pre-cooked CM recipes. The problem of course is which CM tool should they support?
Until one tool ends up winning over all (and it does look like Puppet is in the lead) we should probably just start a wiki with "community approved" examples for all popular server software in each CM tool's config language. With some prodding the 3rd party vendors might just pick them up and package them, making it a de-facto standard that ships with the distro. Well, one can dream anyway.