[Infrastructures] cfengine, etc (fwd)

[Tim Nelson]

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 	[Sent this from the wrong address last week; sorry all].

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Michael Marziani wrote:

> Greetings architects,
> 
> I've been scouring the web for info on cfengine and similar infrastructure
> configuration tools, but I am really not seeing much talk except about
> cfengine.  I read a bit about issconf on infrastructures.org and I just saw 
> a
> link on this list to radmind.  Are there any other tools in use for this, or 
> is
> cfengine the de facto standard?
> 
> I've been out of the infrastructure architecture game for a few years and it
> looks like cfengine has really grown a lot, but I don't want to miss out if
> another great tool has been developed and warrants investigation.
> 
> So, what I'd like to request is your thoughts on any of these tools that you
> like and/or use and would recommend.

 	There are other things out there.  I've only used cfengine though.

 	LCFG, psgconf, bcfg(?).  If you don't get much in the way of 
results here, try also asking on the lssconf-discuss list.

 	cfengine supposedly has the largest user community.  I think cfengine 
still needs work, but I liked it better than anything else I skimmed over.

 	:)

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