[et-mgmt-tools] Sysdirector

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Thu Aug 28 18:14:45 UTC 2008


Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Harry Hoffman wrote:
>> Ah,
>>
>> I think I misunderstood the purpose of sysdirector.
>>
>> I envisioned being able to template puppet/cfengine config files much 
>> in the same way that we do now for kickstart, snippets, etc.
>
> I think templating puppet recipes would be a bit too "meta".    I 
> think that is what the Puppet "class" system is for, right?  To save 
> what you did once to make it reusable?   So in that way I think they 
> already have that.
>
> --Michael

Perhaps you were talking about templating configurations on the managed 
systems instead, in which case that makes sense, and apologies if I got 
that confused :)

--Michael





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