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.
--
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug
kyle(a)nblug.org
