[Infrastructures] Is cfengine a good tool?

[stephen white]

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Jim Rowan wrote:
> No, it was because it's hard to make any change on that many machines 
> without a clean automated way to do it.  Uptime and reliability are 
> very important there, with many jobs running a week or more...    
> There were  no free opportunities to reinstall.

That's probably the magic ingredient then... I didn't need to take the 
machines down to re-install them. It was more like an apt-get upgrade 
on a running machine than a ground up rebuild. The ground up rebuilds 
happened on the baseline images, but the distribution was on running 
machines.

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