Puppet users - Oct 2009 - Re: Best Practices Rewrite - First Draft

----- "R.I.Pienaar" <rip@devco.net> wrote:
> ''lo,
> 
> ----- "Julian Simpson" <simpsonjulian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > No objections here.  I seem to recall that there had a been a
> > discussion at PuppetCamp about perhaps moving to a pattens
> collection
> > instead of set of best practices - not sure if anyone has bandwidth
> > to to work on this but it might help to keep it in mind.
> 
> Pattern collections are much better, I''d rather have articles
> exploring features that people can learn each feature and then apply
> to their environment than a best practice since those are almost
> always full of assumptions about local conditions, patterns are
> flexible and can be molded to your needs..
That''s very true.  Different local needs and different levels of
complexity and business requirements will definitely drive how things should be
done.  For instance, if you just want to use puppet to make sure a certain
package is installed on all servers, you may not need the complexity of larger
instances.  We have a practice here (partially represented by the out of date
best practices) that works well for a large institution with large amount of
classes and large difference and ties to external entities like a CMDB.  So well
defined patterns can be good, but how to write them and more importantly, how to
present them in a common area can be difficult, especially where there are
multiple solutions to a given problem.  Ideas?

-- 
Digant C Kasundra <digant@stanford.edu>
Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University

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