A new brick in my infrastructure

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:19:34 +0000

If you read this blog you may know I daily use puppet at $WORK. Puppet is made to maintain configuration on machines, but not for one shot actions. For a couple of month I used to work with fabric for this but It had a few drawbacks, mainly because you need to maintain the list of hosts you want to act on and that it hates dead hosts, even if ghantoos dropped a link showing how to get rid of this. So I replaced it with mcollective : not exactly the same (it uses an agent instead of SSH) but it dynamicaly knows which hosts are up, allows to filter on facts (from facter, the puppet companion).

La poupée agile

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:52:24 +0000

Il y a des trucs, ça relève du bon sens mais on y pense pas toujours. Dans le monde des sysadmins, il y en a qui militent pour ce qu’on appelle “l’agilité”. C’est en fait appliquer certaines techniques à la base mises en place pour le développement au monde de l’administration système. Personnellement, je trouve que ce sont essentiellement des conseils de bon sens, l’expérience qui parle en somme.

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A new brick in my infrastructure

La poupée agile