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

Ryan Duff
Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:11:01 -0000

Zach,

Chris Moates did an interesting presentation on Puppet during CPOSC a
few months back. I was actually looking at his slides for a refresher
the other day. You might find something useful in there as far as
reasons to use Puppet. He lists quite a few and why its beneficial.

You can grab a PDF of his presentation here:

http://wiki.cposc.org/_media/2008:cposc2008-moates-scalableadmin.pdf

Hope this helps!


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Zach Buckholz 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