freebsd stable - Feb 2015 - push a few config files to dozen or so servers

On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:31 PM, parv <parv at pair.com> wrote:
> 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

One of the reasons I've been looking at Salt recently is because of this
post in December 2014 by Craig Rodrigues, who set up and maintains the FreeBSD
project's Jenkins cluster:

	https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2014-December/000693.html

Going by that post, it seems that he is leaning towards using Salt to manage the
cluster.

My hope is that if jenkins.freebsd.org is using Salt for infrastructure
management then perhaps FreeBSD support might get a boost in the Salt community.

I'm previously familiar with Puppet and am looking at Salt at the moment. 
There are similar concepts between the two, e.g., pillars = hiera; grains =
facter; etc.  I haven't looked at Ansible very closely, but it seems that
Salt also covers the same ground in its strong focus on orchestration.

I think all these systems are very good in their own right, but in the end
community support for your preferred OS is paramount.  I'm hoping that
FreeBSD looking at using Salt for the Jenkins cluster might boost FreeBSD
support in the Salt community.

Cheers,

Paul.

On Feb 7, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:31 PM, parv <parv at pair.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> 
> One of the reasons I've been looking at Salt recently is because of
this post in December 2014 by Craig Rodrigues, who set up and maintains the
FreeBSD project's Jenkins cluster:
> 
> 
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2014-December/000693.html
> 
> Going by that post, it seems that he is leaning towards using Salt to
manage the cluster.
> 
> My hope is that if jenkins.freebsd.org is using Salt for infrastructure
management then perhaps FreeBSD support might get a boost in the Salt community.
> I'm previously familiar with Puppet and am looking at Salt at the
moment.  There are similar concepts between the two, e.g., pillars = hiera;
grains = facter; etc.
Devops is a lovely thing, and I see the appeal, and it?s nice there?s a
community building all manner of software to assist in managing large groups of
servers.

<rant>
But the trend of developers coming up with cute and/or clever names for
concepts, configuration items, and behaviors simply has to stop.  It serves no
purpose but to be cute.  One could even call it intentional documentation
obfuscation.  It annoys me to no end.
</rant>

So what is in use for the jenkins cluster, anyone know?

And any totally FreeBSD-centric HOWTOs on either ansible or salt?

Charles

>  I haven't looked at Ansible very closely, but it seems that Salt also
covers the same ground in its strong focus on orchestration.
> 
> I think all these systems are very good in their own right, but in the end
community support for your preferred OS is paramount.  I'm hoping that
FreeBSD looking at using Salt for the Jenkins cluster might boost FreeBSD
support in the Salt community.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
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