Cloudy Saturday: Puppet, for Automating Virtual Machines | Linux Today

Cloudy Saturday: Puppet, for Automating Virtual Machines

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 10, 2008

[ Thanks to Sakshi
Garg
for this link. ]

“This is the first of our weekly ‘Cloudy Saturday’ columns that
will delve into using cloud computing techniques to manage your own
server farms, both large and small. This week we’ll talk about the
Puppet automation system from Reductive Labs. Puppet is built upon
the legacy of the venerable Cfengine system, but takes things to a
whole new level.

“The open source world is rife with projects that try to
automate the management of systems. The most notable and most
mature until now had been Cfengine…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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