[chef] Re: Re: Can you recommend a command-and-control tool?

[Michael Hale < >]

Anyone have experience with mcollective and rundeck? I'm wondering how
they compare.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
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> Rundeck and mcollective will probably be your best bet. I'd love to
> recommend vogeler but I've had to time off from development for a while.
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> You can also look at func but it's pretty RHEL specific.
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> On Jan 17, 2011 7:14 PM, "John Vincent" 
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>  wrote:
>> Rundeck and mcollective are in the top for the most part. I'd recommend
>> Vogeler but I've had to take a break from development for a while. You can
>> also look at function but it's pretty rhel specific.
>> On Jan 17, 2011 7:10 PM, "Mike Williams" 
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>> wrote:
>>> I'm helping a client rebuild their configuration management and software
>> deployment tooling, and we have Chef successfully doing both ... but only
>> on
>> a per-node basis. Now I'm looking to add a layer above Chef, to
>> orchestrate
>> software/platform updates across a data-center, in a controlled fashion.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations? Has anyone successfully used something like
>> mcollective or nanite, with Chef, to do this kind of orchestration? Do
>> recipes exist to install these? (The opscode repo contains a nanite
>> cookbook, but it appears to be deprecated). Or, do most people find "knife
>> exec" sufficient?
>>>
>>> --
>>> cheers,
>>> Mike Williams
>>>
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