Puppet

Puppet began from the simple desire of Luke Kanies *not* to have to remember all the mundane administrivia for configuring the various common UNIX services--that there ought to be some sort of way to define a set of templates, rules, and data that could be combined to programmatically build those configuration files. And, as long as you're building them automatically, you may as well distribute them to the target hosts and "do the right thing" to get those hosts to recognize/read the updated configuration information. Now, it's widely seen as at least the equal of the venerable cfengine. Robert will discuss the implementation of Puppet for configuration management.

About the Speaker

Robert Harker has been administering Linux & UNIX hosts for about two and a half decades. He is currently Sr. Sendmail Consultant at Harker Systems, and a member of the BayLISA board of directors.

The meeting will be held at LinkedIn this month.

For directions, point your fave map tool at:
2029 Stierlin Ct.
Mountain View, CA 94043

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