Re: [Radmind-devel] Fwd: [Config-mgmt] Comparison of open source configuration management software

[Patrick M. <mc...@um...>]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Philip Rinehart wrote:

> The question for me here, is radmind really the appropriate tool to  
> handle that type of configuration information?

I'm inclined to say not directly, but maybe via some block-box "file  
generation" engine, be it cfengine, puppet, shell scripts, etc.   
Radmind and the tools would have to be modified to use a generalized  
interface for this to work.

> CFEngine is mentioned, but I'm not sure that solves the issue  
> either.  Would puppet (http://reductivelabs.com) do some of this  
> for you?

Any of the configuration management tools do basically the same thing  
and could be used to address this problem.

> I've talked to Jeff McCune before, and I think the combination of  
> puppet/radmind could be extremely powerful.

How would you use such a system?  What would be easier to do with the  
hybrid system as opposed to a pure radmind deployment?