[nycbug-talk] New Setup Questions

[Brian Gupta]

Not to start up the cfengine vs puppet debate again, but one question. How
do you plan to handle package installation? That's one thing where CMS can
really help.

-Brian

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:

> We're launching an entirely new setup across FreeBSD boxes - about 50
> servers total.  I have two things which I'm still somewhat debating, and
> thought I'd get a second opinion.
>
> First, instead of using CFEngine to manage the boxes, I was thinking of
> using an SVN-based setup.  Each server would checkout their appropriate
> files via SVN, and I would "trigger" each server when it needs an update
> via config files that would be fetched often via either ftp or svn.  This
> is neat and flexible, but not as complex as CFEngine.  Thoughts?
>
> Second, I'm trying to decide how to do packages.  Across the 50 servers
> we'll have about 6 or 7 different hardware sets.  Some will be Dell, some
> IBM, etc.  Most will be 64 bit boxes (to address larger memory ranges).
> Should I set up a single server for each class (and do make package to
> create packages for each box), or should I just compile ports from source
> on each box, verifying that I'm installing the same package version each
> time (which will allow each box to take advantage of the benefits of its
> specific hardware).
>
> Those are my two questions, and I'd appreciate any input anyone can
> provide.  Thanks!
>
> -Matt
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