[et-mgmt-tools] Sysdirector

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:28:33AM -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> 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 don't debate that - certainly today nearly everyone uses some kind of
config file templates - primarily because there has never been a good
quality tool like Augeas before to let them do a better job :-)

Daniel
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