[et-mgmt-tools] puppet+coan+cobbler vs. quattor

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 10:54 +0200, Tomas Kouba wrote:
> has anybody in this list tried both puppet+coan+cobbler and quattor[1] and 
> can comment? I am planning to do that comparison, but if somebody already 
> has some experience it would be very helpful.

I looked at quattor a long time ago, so my recollection is somewhat
hazy; what put me off of it was that it seemed to make it unnecessarily
hard to understand what exactly you were changing about systems. 

In particular, it requires that you really like imagining your system
config as a tree structure, and express changes in that tree structure;
that causes both a steep learning curve and a not so intuitive
representation of the config.

I also prefer an approach where separate functions are provided by
separate tools (like the cobbler/koan/puppet split) rather than
requiring a pretty serious infrastructure before you can use any of the
functionality.

David