> > Despite all that, there is still lots and lots to recommend Puppet. > However, if there's another configuration management framework that is > more "FreeBSD-friendly," then it would be good to know of that. With > large-scale system installations becoming more and more prevalent, so > too does the importance of configuration management and orchestration > systems. I've been looking at Salt recently, which I've heard is > supposed to be quite "FreeBSD-friendly." Does anyone know of any > others that have a great FreeBSD community and support behind them?There?s also chef, which has as little (or even less) support for FreeBSD. But I believe it?s the most powerful of the ones available. I?ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has decent support for FreeBSD. Anybody got experience with that?
That's what I settled on. Simple, secure, push style, central management. The last thing I have time for is learning another ugly config setup for another tool. The config for ansible is clean IMO and really easy (compared to chef and salt and puppet). Granted I'm not using it for managing 100,000 boxes but it works great for me. It runs securely with ssh and quite fast. The other tools just give me a headache, you can tell engineers wrote them. FreeBSD support is fairly decent. For instance it supports jails and package management. Chris Open Systems Inc. Sent from my iPhone 5> > I?ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has decent support for FreeBSD. > > Anybody got experience with that? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
Hello Rainer, On Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:20:24 +0100, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:> > > > > Despite all that, there is still lots and lots to recommend > > Puppet. However, if there's another configuration management > > framework that is more "FreeBSD-friendly," then it would be good to > > know of that. With large-scale system installations becoming more > > and more prevalent, so too does the importance of configuration > > management and orchestration systems. I've been looking at Salt > > recently, which I've heard is supposed to be quite > > "FreeBSD-friendly." Does anyone know of any others that have a > > great FreeBSD community and support behind them? > > > > There?s also chef, which has as little (or even less) support for > FreeBSD. But I believe it?s the most powerful of the ones available. > > I?ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has decent > support for FreeBSD. > > Anybody got experience with that?I initially tried Chef, but had many problems on FreeBSD so I switched to Ansible and found it works quite well. I use Poudriere to build a custom repository for my packages. Set up a base Machine or VM with ssh + python working then I use Ansible scripts to create and maintain jails on the machines. I also tag certain operations in the scripts so that I can quick update configuration files with out having to run through every operation. There is a simple template system to allow customisation of the files.> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"-- Best Regards. Christopher Hall.
in message <6CC9FCD8-EB12-4DD1-A76E-8F43C044340F at ultra-secure.de>, wrote Rainer Duffner thusly...>...> I???ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has > decent support for FreeBSD. > > Anybody got experience with that?>From Dan L (not me) ...http://dan.langille.org/2013/12/22/ansible-versus-salt/ https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adlangille%20ansible&src=typd - parv --