The future of config management has arrived.
Tiny-puppet burdens you with having to pass in parameters to configure your servers.
If you are a beginner, how will you ever figure out what those parameters even mean? With micro puppet you no longer need to pass in those pesky parameters. Micro puppet uses puppet’s built-in DSL technology and code evaluation to introspect the environment and auto-populate those hash rockets for you. It’s like magic! But we call it syntactic sugar.
– µPuppet
It further improved Tiny Puppet to its ultimate goal. I’ve been blind for not having seen this coming.
And to spearhead the competition with µPuppet, there’s now Ensible . A European fork of Ansible with very clear goals.
Ensible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration-management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task-execution, and multinode orchestration – including trivializing things like zero downtime rolling updates with load balancers.
– Ensible
Screw containers.
The future is µPuppet and Ensible , combined. Managing the same resources, because they both add value.