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LEB automation software?
Hello,
I'm after an automated software which would allow me to add a couple of my LEBs in it(all LEB come with the same OS) and allow me to install things and execute commands to all added LEBs from one place.
Does anyone have some recommendations? It can be free or paid software, although I would prefer a free one, naturally.
Thanks
Comments
http://puppetlabs.com/ should work well
Was just looking into Puppet and Chef. Thanks though @EliotJ
There's also..
http://saltstack.org/
http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/
http://cfengine.com/
But I haven't personally used them, so can't comment on their ease of use.
+1 for puppet.
We use Saltstack, great program.
Throwing Ansible into the mix
I suppose i'm a bit dense: what are these? What are their scope? Would these let me replicate the same configs to each new node that we implement?
@damian in short, yes. Each of these configuration management tools provides a mechanism (recipes/cookbooks/modules/playbooks) that the end-user can copy/create to reflect (in most cases) desired state. Where supported, commands are only executed when they need to be, rather than everytime (state based). Using ansible, I have a base playbook that sets up core stuff after I get a new VPS then have other playbooks for specific application needs. You can then group the hosts into roles, execute one command and watch your infrastructure get updated