Anyone have any deep experience with any of those tools? We are looking at using one of them as a configuration management and automation tool.

They would need to work across a virtual/physical environment. Ideally also be able to execute configuration tasks across different management systems (Remedy, M&M, ESX, Citrx, et cetra).

5/18/2015 12:28:30 PM

i recently changed roles but in my previous one a few people on one of my teams setup chef to automate a significant amount of busy work after piloting both puppet and chef for a few weeks - used primarily as an automated deployment tool with some config management

~1500 servers (~1250 Internet-facing hosting production apps) - mixture of Windows / Linux - multiple applications hosted on the servers but all created in-house so we have full control

hard to call my hands-on experience deep though

5/18/2015 1:29:38 PM

im a fan of chef solo and berkshelf myself but i'm more of a, update your chef/shell/puppet script in git, push to jenkins, have a build triggered, unit tests happen, and if it succeeds, burn an image. this will drastically reduce MTTR/operational cost in the event of a failure or scale out event.

5/18/2015 1:40:29 PM

Chef. Use Chef.

5/18/2015 2:19:05 PM

resurrection!!

I'm just now getting started with chef, and holy cow does this change the game or what?! Also now cisco is building in support for chef with their NX-OS devices!

5/10/2016 5:52:54 PM