[et-mgmt-tools] Sysdirector

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Aug 28 11:53:44 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:44:30AM -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just stumbled across this and was wondering if the RH/Fedora folk have 
> come across this and whether or not it fits up with Spacewalk, Cobbler, 
> Func., etc.
> 
> http://www.sysdirector.org/

 "SysDirector is a template driven configuration management system that
  allows administrators to deliver content to machines in a protocol 
  independent fashion."

This is really solving the wrong problem.  You really don't want to be
working in terms of configuration file templates. You want to work 
based off functional configuration requirements, and have the tool
itself decide what the actual config file settings need to be. This is
the core benefit of using Puppet over cfengine. Combine puppet with
Augeas, and you make it really easy to modify config file settings
in-place without using templates.

Daniel
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