The Strengths and Weakness of Fedora/RHEL OS management

Avi Alkalay avi at unix.sh
Thu Mar 30 03:53:36 UTC 2006


On 3/28/06, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> A lighter-weight approach seems more promising: encapsulate most of the
> config-file specific knowledge in simple script wrappers that can be
> controlled by a declarative description of the configuration you want to
> achieve and the logical interdependencies between them. This is what
> puppet does, and why I find it very attractive.
>

Hummm, never heard about puppet. Seems interesting.
The problem I see with this approach is the additional layer that manages
the configuration files syntax. And again: ALL configuration files can be
represented by an hierarchy of key/value pairs. They are different because
they received a considerable amount of syntax fat to make them look nicer to
your human eyes. And what puppet seems to do is try to work with this fat.

Elektra completely removes that fat and reduces the configuration parameters
to what they really are: key/value pairs.

Avi
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