[et-mgmt-tools] Sysdirector

[Harry Hoffman]

Ah,

I think I misunderstood the purpose of sysdirector.

I envisioned being able to template puppet/cfengine config files much in 
the same way that we do now for kickstart, snippets, etc.

Daniel spoke about it solving the wrong problem. I'm not sure I disagree 
with him but currently I think the vast majority of people who use some 
sort of configuration mgmt system wind up templating their files.


I guess I need to look a bit more at Augeas.

Cheers,
Harry


Michael DeHaan wrote:
<snip>

>>   
> 
> I talked with one of the authors for a while on IRC last week, just to 
> understand what they were trying to do, since typically Cobbler+puppet 
> (or cfengine for some) is the way /most/ of the people here manage their 
> systems. (That, and it seems nagios+cacti for monitoring/trending).
> 
> Sysdirector is apparently glue for puppet/cfengine+their homegrown PXE 
> provisioning. They had heard of Cobbler but had not looked at it.
> 
> My main concern is that it uses Twisted to provide TFTP and HTTP 
> services, rather than tftp-server and Apache. I suspect that will cause 
> some rather painful scaling issues. Also there is no virtualization 
> solution, and in present times, being able to support virtualization at 
> the same level of physical systems is critical. Twisted has always 
> struck me as a rather experimental "wouldn't it be cool if" kind of 
> library, but not something I would consider for production server building.
> 
> Ultimately, I wish them luck, and open source allows for choice. If 
> people like it they will use it, but the real power in OSS development 
> is in communities, feedback, and design. I am really proud of the 
> community we have here and I expect that if there is something we're 
> lacking you'll tell us (and maybe even help us build it). So, if there 
> is something you like about sysdirector that we /don't/ do, or other 
> tools integrating some of our favored tools don't exist, tell us what it 
> is, and we'll try to make it better.
> 
> --Michael
> 
> _______________________________________________
> et-mgmt-tools mailing list
> et-mgmt-tools at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools