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OSBridge: Configuration Management Panel
The moment I heard about the Open Source Bridge Configuration Management panel session on FLOSS Weekly a while ago, I was hoping that I will be able to see the recording of this session (as for obvious reasons I was not able to attend and see this live in Portland, Oregon). They managed to bring together (for the first time to my knowledge) the creators (or maintainers) of *all* the major configuration management tools to date was very impressive; and obviously someone as myself that has been working with many of these tools (I haven’t tried/used automateit yet) would definitely see this as a great session.
Here are the members of the configuration management panel (from left to right):
- Igal Koshevoy of AutomateIt
- Brendan Strejcek of Cfengine
- Luke Kanies from Reductive Labs for Puppet
- Narayan Desai of bcfg2
- Adam Jacob from Opscode for Chef
Luckily the video of the session (among other videos from Open Source Bridge) was published and anyone can see this great event:
Now, after I sow this I must admit that I was hoping for a little more engagement and controversy. Instead we sow a friendly debate where everyone presented his own tool, without trying to go over the line and tell why it is better than the one of someone else (we have definitely seen several such blog posts from them in the past 
). Anyway this was a great event and a great opportunity to have all the major people in this field come together and share their story. I’m sure that after this they will get back to work, we will see new features and improvements in their tools.
Tags: automateit, bcfg2, cfengine, chef, puppet
1st July 2009, 16:01
All of them are over bloated softwares.
Why do you reinvent useless complicated wheel?
Why do you make & learn incompatible own DSL instead of shell & scripting language?
Try slack( http://code.google.com/p/slack/ ).
2nd July 2009, 14:50
Because configuration management is much more than the world of a sysadm. the application owners and developers need config mngt e3ven more than the sysadms. If you only manage less than 100 machines then, perl/python might be fine. Opsware rocks when properly used.
19th December 2009, 01:44
I don’t believe automation in configuration management, necessary or a always a good idea. In some industries it is a good idea to have a stream line CM, however, I believe many business would benefit from a higher formal CM, the ITs being one of them. A personal touch and a good pair of eyes can keep you on track and keep everything in working order.
19th January 2010, 01:22
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