bcfg2

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:15 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:14:28PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:15 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 08:58 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > > > Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:14 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > > >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:23:31PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > > > >>> Another option to look into for configuration management:
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone looked at puppet?
> > > > http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/
> > > 
> > > I haven't looked at Puppet in depth, but one con is that it's written in
> > > Ruby (not that there's anything wrong with that).  But there may be
> > > license issues with bcfg2 so that may be an option as well.
> > > 
> > > > Or cfengine for that matter, though I'm getting dissatisfied with it myself.
> > > 
> > > I haven't looked at cfengine yet either, but from what I've seen it's
> > > cryptic configuration is a major con.
> > > 
> > 
> > What was wrong with glump and friends?
> > 
> > It's simple, no cryptic formatting of files or craziness. The scripting
> > language that runs on the hosts is whatever you want it to be.
> 
> Do you have a URL for glump?

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/mini/glump/

and mike posted a note about it in some detail a few weeks, maybe a
month, back.

-sv