Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 14:15:54 -0500 From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>, parv <parv@pair.com> Subject: Re: push a few config files to dozen or so servers Message-ID: <0B3C5275-47A3-400F-945D-E25EDB46A6C5@bway.net> In-Reply-To: <DEEBB5AA-0DB9-49AD-B0A4-3A485FA8B4CA@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> 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> <DEEBB5AA-0DB9-49AD-B0A4-3A485FA8B4CA@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Feb 7, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> = wrote: > On Feb 6, 2015, at 5:31 PM, parv <parv@pair.com> wrote: >=20 >> 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 >=20 >=20 > 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: >=20 > = https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2014-December/000693.h= tml >=20 > Going by that post, it seems that he is leaning towards using Salt to = manage the cluster. >=20 > 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. Devops is a lovely thing, and I see the appeal, and it=92s nice there=92s = a community building all manner of software to assist in managing large = groups of servers. =20 <rant> But the trend of developers coming up with cute and/or clever names for = concepts, configuration items, and behaviors simply has to stop. It = serves no purpose but to be cute. One could even call it intentional = documentation obfuscation. It annoys me to no end. </rant> So what is in use for the jenkins cluster, anyone know? And any totally FreeBSD-centric HOWTOs on either ansible or salt? Charles > I haven't looked at Ansible very closely, but it seems that Salt also = covers the same ground in its strong focus on orchestration. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Cheers, >=20 > Paul. >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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