From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 19:20:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34211E00 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 19:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ultra-secure.de (mail.ultra-secure.de [88.198.178.88]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75328C26 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 19:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 99406 invoked by uid 89); 5 Feb 2015 19:20:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.200?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.71.83.52) by mail.ultra-secure.de with ESMTPA; 5 Feb 2015 19:20:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) Subject: Re: push a few config files to dozen or so servers From: Rainer Duffner In-Reply-To: <3552828A-536D-41AB-B56D-F47AA4164A79@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:20:24 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <6CC9FCD8-EB12-4DD1-A76E-8F43C044340F@ultra-secure.de> References: <20150205130234.3fcbabfb@efreet.mimar.rs> <54D37932.7010808@madpilot.net> <20150205154743.GO88387@mail0.byshenk.net> <3552828A-536D-41AB-B56D-F47AA4164A79@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: Paul Mather X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Greg Byshenk X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:20:38 -0000 >=20 > Despite all that, there is still lots and lots to recommend Puppet. =20= > However, if there's another configuration management framework that is=20= > more "FreeBSD-friendly," then it would be good to know of that. With=20= > large-scale system installations becoming more and more prevalent, so=20= > too does the importance of configuration management and orchestration=20= > systems. I've been looking at Salt recently, which I've heard is=20 > supposed to be quite "FreeBSD-friendly." Does anyone know of any=20 > others that have a great FreeBSD community and support behind them? There=E2=80=99s also chef, which has as little (or even less) support = for FreeBSD. But I believe it=E2=80=99s the most powerful of the ones available. I=E2=80=99ve always wanted to try ansible, which looks like it has = decent support for FreeBSD. Anybody got experience with that?