[ale] Linux configuration management (validation)?

[Emily Hansen]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:24:04AM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> 
> Configuration management to the rescue.
> 
> If you are fluent in python then I recommend either puppet or saltstack.
> Puppet will get you there faster but saltstack lets you build it all from
> scratch if that is more your way of doing things.
> 
> Chef is another system that has a big following and tons of support.
> 
> CFengine is the grandaddy of them all and uses a pull model instead of a
> push model.
> 
> And there there are the more esoteric ones such as bcfg2, etc. which have
> very specific design goals past general configuration management.
> 
> Been getting a lot of experience with saltstack lately but I have to say
> that I still prefer prefer CFengine3 overall.

You could also look at ansible as well.  It seems to be a bit easier to learn 
than some of the config management tools like puppet/chef/cfengine.

It's very much a python and ssh key thing.

-Emily