Which conf.-management tool are you using?

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Hi people,

as I'm buying more and more LET boxes I think it's time to look for a configuration management tool to manage all boxes at once.

I'm curious to hear which tool(s) you're using.

I had a look at the following ones:

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  Rex

  
  
  
  
  • Con: Authentication management is a bit messy (login as non-root user with ssh-keys, then ask for root-pw for sudo-actions)
  
  
  
  
  
  




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  Fabric

  
  
  
  
  • Con: Not OS/system independent: You'll have to switch between apt and yum by yourself.
  
  
  
  
  
  




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  Puppet / Chef

  
  

What I'm looking for:

• Easy API/interface to write simple tasks




• Easy to maintain/extend




• Highly configurable authentication process




• Abstraction from OSes (e.g. install_package("vnstat") should install it on centos/debian/freeBSD or whatever)

I found a neat list of configuration management tools on wikipedia: http://ift.tt/1satIRe

Anything you can recommend?

The best,

gehaxelt

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