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CFEngine | Puppet | |
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4 | 3 | |
472 | 7,277 | |
1.5% | 0.7% | |
9.4 | 9.8 | |
1 day ago | 3 days ago | |
C | Ruby | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
CFEngine
- German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
- 2023 Development Tool Map
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Replacement for Chef?
Another oldie but goodie is cfengine: https://cfengine.com/
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What does everyone use for automating setting up a new VPS?
I'm using rudder (https://www.rudder.io/), it's based on cfengine (https://cfengine.com/). But this is more enterprise ready, you'll be fine with lightweight ansible. Nice thing is, that rudder ensures compliance by periodically executing all defined rules on all endpoints.
Puppet
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Updating modules to Puppet 8
The Puppet 8 compatibility guide detailed the major changes we had to be aware of and we found it invaluable the effort. It's probably worth bookmarking that page until you're done with the upgrade.
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What do you use ruby for?
I will happily direct your attention here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
We started by decoupling Puppet from Facter as much as we could, introducing the possibility of having multiple Facter backends. While Puppet would use the default Facter implementation when running on its own, external users would be able to define and pass their own Facter implementation when initializing Puppet, similar to how puppetserver configures Puppet to use its JRuby-compliant HTTP client.
What are some alternatives?
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Pallet - Automates controlling and provisioning cloud server instances. DevOps for the JVM.
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework
gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool