You may add Quattor to the list of not so fashionable but very powerful 
configuration tools! Check http://quattor.org.

Cheers,

Michel

--On jeudi 21 février 2013 23:13 +0100 Natxo Asenjo 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Graham Allan <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:27:07PM -0500, Jamie Duncan wrote:
>>> pro - powerful and well-supported
>>> con - you have to learn a new syntax
>>>
>>> alternative - bcfg2
>>
>> Also cfengine, though that seems to be getting less fashionable... We
>> still use it, no compelling reasons to change so far!
>
> we take our decisions based on functionality, not fashion.
>
> Cfengine is just fine. Good performance, little dependencies, good
> security record (not unimportant for your infrastructure management
> tool and oh what a start of the year for ruby it was), and it has in
> place editing instead of requiring you to use yet another tool
> (augeas).
>
> But puppet/chef are good products too, just not good enough to justify
> a downgrade from the better one ;-)
>
> --
> natxo



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