[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Proposal (what problems will puppet solve)

Andrew Shafer
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:49:09 -0000

Everything on here is good and like Paul said it is probably just as
important to figure out what pains you are trying to solve, but I''d
like to
add a point.

Once you have Puppetized the infrastructure, you can reliably rebuild it.

This has a huge impact on scenarios where you want/need to move datacenters,
build in clouds or recover from disasters.

Might be worth a slide in a presentation...


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Zach Buckholz
<zach.buckholz@apollogrp.edu>wrote:

>
> This may sound like a confusing / trick question, so please bare with me.
>
> What problem(s) will puppet solve? Why would I use it?
>
> I am trying to pitch the use of puppet in our environment and need to
> follow a formal proposal model. Which means I need to start with a problem
> to solve or situation to improve.
>
> The concept of what puppet will do needs to be explained to non-technical
> business leaders.
>
> This is what I have come up with so far; (I wish the reductive labs site
> had a wiki page for this)
>
>     What is the problem?
>         Unknown configurations
>         Environment is not dynamic
>         Messy
>         No central model
>         Hard to change
>         No consistency
>         Administration overhead
>         Reactive instead of proactive
>         Unorganized
>         Need scripts to work with linux and solaris
>         Hard to scale
>
> Can anyone add (non-technical explanations) to the above list?
>
>
>     Zach
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