In celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day I published a story at Linux.com called Open Source Toolchains for Systems Administrators, here is an excerpt: “Software developers are very familiar with toolchains, series of programs where the output of one program forms the input for the next. A free software example would be using the GNU [...]
For the last few years I have had an interest in configuration management of IT infrastructure. While by no means an expert I have a considerable amount of experience with the problems associated with mass server configuration and have come to believe it also one of the most under-served disciplines in systems management. In a previous [...]
Latest cloud news and links: Puppet versus Chef: 10 reasons why Puppet wins John contends that Puppet has a bigger head start and that Chef has a huge gap to close or remain a tool for the Ruby on Rails cloud crowd. Puppet, Chef, Dependencies and Worldviews Andrew explains that, “Puppet guarantees that order matters on [...]
