[Mageia-sysadm] servers configuration tool

[nicolas vigier]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010, Michael Scherer wrote:

> Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 12:29 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Mandriva build system we were using cfengine. I think cfengine is
> > quite simple, works correctly, and some of us already know how to use
> > it. 
> 
> what version of cfengine ? because there is cfengine 2, not maintained
> AFAIK, and cfengine 3, that none of us know.
> 
> > But other people are also using puppet. Do you have opinions about
> > what we should use for Mageia servers ?
> 
> Having to use cfengine 2 on zarb and mdv, and puppet on my own server, I
> would say I prefer puppet.
> 
> Puppet community seems more alive, and favors a modular approach. I also
> think it is easier to extend and understand ( both use a dsl, but I
> found it as easier to understand puppet dsl than cfengine one ).
> 
> Guillomovitch proposed we switch to puppet, but I do not exactly know
> the reason.

Interesting. I have never used puppet, but I'm ok to use it (if you
think that's better).

> On the other hand, we already have part of the configuration from mdv in
> cfengine, which is a important point too.

I think we did not use very advanced features of cfengine, so maybe it
would be not too difficult to convert to puppet.

By the way, do you have a backup of the cfengine directory on the
Mandriva build system ?

Nicolas