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Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@kr.ethz.ch>
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## What do I need [from puppet?]
### Abstraction of package managers
I don't want to care about apt, rpm, yum, pacman, etc. I just
want to ensure, some package exists or does not exist.
### Common tasks already done
- [LIBRARY] All the helper types like
- file
- ssh_keys
- package
- service
- user
### PORTABILITY
- [PORTABILITY] clients for every unix
- mostly ruby + facter in puppet
### Other
- Modules: Nice to put stuff together
- and reuse
- [CONDITIONS] facter is cool
- the DSL
- with many bugs
- templates
- Client/Server approach is nice to have
- Clients only get the part of the documentation, that's
relevant to them
- detect impossible/unsafe things:
- creating a file twice
- installing and removing a package
- and report location of occurence
- parse afterwards?
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what is puppet? [FOR ME]
A configuration deployment assistant,
a DSL that allows you define the objectives.
A webserver with fileserver capabilities.
A client based scheduled polling infrastructure.
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What do I miss from puppet?
- speed
- elegance
- clean design
- documentation
- the "no surprise" factor
- easy to use "data memory" (i.e. external ressources)
- easy integration into installation process
- copy identity to master
- multi master setups
- development configurations / tests
- editing of configuration files
- similar to cfengine
- replace bug squasher with bug avoidance
- qmail did not need one either
- push infrastructure
- real / meaningful error messages