[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting September 9: Puppet Systems Management Tool

[Kyle Rankin]

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
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
http://nblug.org
IRC: greenfly at irc.freenode.net #nblug 
kyle at nblug.org