Strategies for managing configuration across many servers covering lifecycle mapping, context, green-field projects, buy-in, and tool selection
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What are common strategies and tools used by tech companies to manage configuration of hundreds of servers? -
Yes Mum, still behaving Using Cucumber Scenario Outlines to collapse repetitive infrastructure tests into a single template fed by a table of example values
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Puppet, Chef, deterministic ordering and the much maligned DSL Reposting Teyo Tyree's full comment on Puppet versus Chef explaining dependency graphs against procedural ordering and the value of an external DSL
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Yes Mum, I'll Behave: Beginning Behaviour Driven Infrastructure Applying Behaviour Driven Development to infrastructure monitoring using Cucumber and Cucumber-Nagios to test that services actually do what users expect
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Configuration Management Panel at Open Source Bridge - Portland June 2009 Running a panel with the creators and maintainers of cfengine, Puppet, AutomateIT, Chef, and bcfg2 to discuss their philosophies