How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by crucialfelix on Monday March 04, 2013 @06:55AM (#5317785)

I wasted several days trying to get a good puppet setup. In the end it still needs more work, and the deploy system is complicated. I only have 4 boxes to manage.

Ansible looks great. Much lighter weight but it can still scale up.

Puppet and chef would both benefit by supporting single run light weight modes of usage.

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by pindi on Monday March 04, 2013 @11:24AM (#5318915)

Puppet does have a single run mode of usage: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/apply.html

I use it to manage just 5 servers, with a Fabric script that rsyncs the manifests up to the servers then runs `puppet apply` to apply the changes.

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by crucialfelix on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:50PM (#5321573)

true, and that's exactly what I was doing. rsync and then run puppet apply. that's just a lot of grinding if you only made one little typo.

and I see here I have capfiles and a system to bootstrap a new server. way too much stuff for this scale. (4 servers)

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