Roadmap Clarification

[Sebastien Estienne]

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On 7/16/07, Geoff O'Callaghan <geoffocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 00:46:02 Jim Tarvid wrote:
> > One of the issues I would like to see addressed is differentiating
> > types of servers.
>
> Hi Jim,  I can see this potentially occurring  via a collection of puppet [1]
> manifests.  The manifest can be applied locally or from a centrally
> administered location within your network.  The manifest allows you to define
> classes of applications and/or server functions and have those 'applied' to a
> generic or a running system - or equally to a server during build.    As this
> occurs the components are installed and configured as per defined best
> practice, it also allows for manifests to be updated over time with your
> local requirements and/or improvements in best practice from the community.
>
> For example, currently ubuntu-server has a 'LAMP' selection that allows you to
> build a new server with LAMP functionality...  This could easily be achieved
> by installing a generic server function and have puppet perform the
> appropriate post build configuration of the system.   The secret is in making
> quality puppet manifests.
>
> puppet manifests can be one-off's or repeatable tasks which could return a
> system you have b0rked to a working state (potentially) and as I said become
> extremely powerful when centrally administering servers in larger networks.
>
> While i'm not exactly excited about puppet being written in ruby it is quite
> capable of performing a number of automatic actions limited only by the
> cleverness of those writing manifests.

What do you think about bcfg2 http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2 :
it is written in python.

>
> Anyway, just floating it as an idea to improve ubuntu-server and if it's even
> remotely an interesting approach I can try coding up a spec for it.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
>
>  [1] http://puppet.reductivelabs.com/
>
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