Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

Jeff McCune
2010-02-24T15:01:27Z

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Michael Gliwinski
<Michael.Gliwinski@henderson-group.com> wrote:
> I see your point, but this is perhaps specific to the domain of
configuration
> management systems?  I mean just look at some of the largest free software
> communities like KDE, which is primarily written in C++ which
doesn''t seem to
> be in any way diminishing the number of contributors.

I think so.  As a systems engineer, I reach for python and ruby very
frequently and can''t remember the last I reached for C/C++.  I believe
it was to write a cfengine module actually.

Puppet provides a natural way for me to integrate the scripting I
already do day to day into a sophisticated and robust system.