Strategies for managing configuration across many servers covering lifecycle mapping, context, green-field projects, buy-in, and tool selection
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What are common strategies and tools used by tech companies to manage configuration of hundreds of servers? Yes Mum, still behaving Using Cucumber Scenario Outlines to collapse repetitive infrastructure tests into a single template fed by a table of example values
Puppet, Chef, deterministic ordering and the much maligned DSL Reposting Teyo Tyree's full comment on Puppet versus Chef explaining dependency graphs against procedural ordering and the value of an external DSL
Yes Mum, I'll Behave: Beginning Behaviour Driven Infrastructure Applying Behaviour Driven Development to infrastructure monitoring using Cucumber and Cucumber-Nagios to test that services actually do what users expect
Configuration Management Panel at Open Source Bridge - Portland June 2009 Running a panel with the creators and maintainers of cfengine, Puppet, AutomateIT, Chef, and bcfg2 to discuss their philosophies