Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 12:17:21 -0500 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>, Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> Subject: Re: push a few config files to dozen or so servers Message-ID: <DEEBB5AA-0DB9-49AD-B0A4-3A485FA8B4CA@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20150206223141.GA1637@holstein.holy.cow> References: <20150205130234.3fcbabfb@efreet.mimar.rs> <op.xtk288tykndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local> <54D37932.7010808@madpilot.net> <20150205154743.GO88387@mail0.byshenk.net> <3552828A-536D-41AB-B56D-F47AA4164A79@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <6CC9FCD8-EB12-4DD1-A76E-8F43C044340F@ultra-secure.de> <20150206223141.GA1637@holstein.holy.cow>
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On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:31 PM, parv <parv@pair.com> wrote: > in message <6CC9FCD8-EB12-4DD1-A76E-8F43C044340F@ultra-secure.de>, > wrote Rainer Duffner thusly... >>=20 > ... >> I???ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has >> decent support for FreeBSD. >>=20 >> Anybody got experience with that? >=20 > =46rom Dan L (not me) ... >=20 > http://dan.langille.org/2013/12/22/ansible-versus-salt/ >=20 > https://twitter.com/search?q=3Dfrom%3Adlangille%20ansible&src=3Dtypd >=20 >=20 > - parv One of the reasons I've been looking at Salt recently is because of this = post in December 2014 by Craig Rodrigues, who set up and maintains the = FreeBSD project's Jenkins cluster: = https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2014-December/000693.h= tml Going by that post, it seems that he is leaning towards using Salt to = manage the cluster. My hope is that if jenkins.freebsd.org is using Salt for infrastructure = management then perhaps FreeBSD support might get a boost in the Salt = community. I'm previously familiar with Puppet and am looking at Salt at the = moment. There are similar concepts between the two, e.g., pillars =3D = hiera; grains =3D facter; etc. I haven't looked at Ansible very = closely, but it seems that Salt also covers the same ground in its = strong focus on orchestration. I think all these systems are very good in their own right, but in the = end community support for your preferred OS is paramount. I'm hoping = that FreeBSD looking at using Salt for the Jenkins cluster might boost = FreeBSD support in the Salt community. Cheers, Paul.
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