The Best Buy guys are using Chef, and have been happy with it. Puppet was mentioned in one of the sessions I attended, but the team decided to use Chef instead. They also said if you're not using one of these tools you're doing it wrong :) Let me know if you want I can put you in touch with the guys who were giving the talk. -Erik On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote: > First, I'm just curious if anyone is using Ansible[1] in production? After > getting fed up with puppet, I'm seriously considering moving to Ansible. > I've spent a couple hours the last few days poking at it, and it's been a > *much* more pleasant experience than I've had with puppet. > > Second, any post-Minnebar thoughts? > > The most enjoyable (and useful) session I attended was the monitoring > session. Among other projects, this session introduced me to Sensu[2], a > new-ish monitoring framework. I've been using Nagios for years, and it holds > a dear place in my heart. In my current gig, though, our environment has a > very high rate of change. Servers get started and destroyed > programmatically, sometimes on a minute-by-minute basis. This makes using > legacy monitoring products like Nagios very painful. Sensu uses a > subscription-based model where clients register themselves with the server > and "subscribe" to different roles. Based on that role's configuration, the > server starts checking services on the client. I haven't started playing > with Sensu yet, but I will likely be doing so in the next few days, as I > don't want to invest any more time in my Nagios setup if I'm going to be > deprecating it soon. > > Anyway, that's all for now - I'm looking forward to hearing from (hopefully) > some of you! > > Thanks! > -Erik > > [1] http://ansible.cc/ > [2] http://sensuapp.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Erik K. Mitchell erik.mitchell at gmail.com