managing applications

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:26:59AM -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 
> > cfengine looks like it might be that tool.  I'm going to go do some  
> > reading.  Thanks to Tom & Shawn for the pointer!
> 
> You might also look at Puppet which claims "Puppet could be said to be 
> the next-generation cfengine. The overall design is heavily influenced 
> by cfengine, but the language is more powerful than cfengine's and the 
> library is more flexible."
> http://www.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/CfengineVsPuppet
>
> I have no experience with either of these. If you end up using one I 
> would be interested in hearing about it.

While we're pointing...  I've also heard of "bcfg2" described as a
"next-generation cfengine".  I don't know much about it, just that it's
in one of my list of notes somewhere, along with that phrase (and now
'puppet' has been added).

mm