Ah,
I think I misunderstood the purpose of sysdirector.
I envisioned being able to template puppet/cfengine config files much in
the same way that we do now for kickstart, snippets, etc.
Daniel spoke about it solving the wrong problem. I'm not sure I disagree
with him but currently I think the vast majority of people who use some
sort of configuration mgmt system wind up templating their files.
I guess I need to look a bit more at Augeas.
Cheers,
Harry
Michael DeHaan wrote:
<snip>
I talked with one of the authors for a while on IRC last week, just to
understand what they were trying to do, since typically Cobbler+puppet
(or cfengine for some) is the way /most/ of the people here manage their
systems. (That, and it seems nagios+cacti for monitoring/trending).
Sysdirector is apparently glue for puppet/cfengine+their homegrown PXE
provisioning. They had heard of Cobbler but had not looked at it.
My main concern is that it uses Twisted to provide TFTP and HTTP
services, rather than tftp-server and Apache. I suspect that will cause
some rather painful scaling issues. Also there is no virtualization
solution, and in present times, being able to support virtualization at
the same level of physical systems is critical. Twisted has always
struck me as a rather experimental "wouldn't it be cool if" kind of
library, but not something I would consider for production server building.
Ultimately, I wish them luck, and open source allows for choice. If
people like it they will use it, but the real power in OSS development
is in communities, feedback, and design. I am really proud of the
community we have here and I expect that if there is something we're
lacking you'll tell us (and maybe even help us build it). So, if there
is something you like about sysdirector that we /don't/ do, or other
tools integrating some of our favored tools don't exist, tell us what it
is, and we'll try to make it better.
--Michael
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