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

Zach Buckholz
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:53:56 -0000

> 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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