[SoCoSA/discuss] Fwd: NBLUG Sep 9: Puppet Systems Management Tool

[Eric Eisenhart]

Hey fellow sysadmins,

Some of you might be interested in this talk.  I gave an older version of
this talk to SoCoSA maybe about a year ago.  Definitely a sysadmin kind of
topic.

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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:42:41 -0700
From: Kyle Rankin <kyle at nblug.org>
To: announce at nblug.org
Subject: [NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting September 9: Puppet Systems
	Management Tool

Start: 2008/09/09 - 7:30pm
End: 2008/09/09 - 9:00pm
Location:
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA
http://nblug.org/genloc
Speaker: Eric Eisenhart

Description:

    Still using ssh in a for loop to manage server clusters? Rewriting the
    entire hard drive of hundreds of workstations just to tweak one
    setting?  Managing your systems by hand? Having trouble keeping up with
    all the changes to all the systems? Maybe it's time to try something
    new.

    Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks. Puppet
    is also a declarative language for expressing system configuration, a
    client and server for distributing it, and a library for realizing the
    configuration.

    Huh? In other words, you edit files in a nice readable language and
    magically the right things change in the right order on all the right
    systems. It's like your systems configure themselves.

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Kyle Rankin
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The North Bay Linux Users Group
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