Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

Puppet is a Ruby-based alternative to the venerable cfengine. There’s a bug open for it in Bugzilla. Until I know whether it’s worth adding to the Portage tree or not, I’ve added it to my server overlay. You can add my overlay to your Gentoo install by running layman -a stuart-server.

I’m interested in testing Puppet as a tool for pushing configuration updates out to EC2 AMI’s. I’m also interested in modifying Puppet to be a two-way tool, so that when a Xen VM boots, it uses Puppet to register its IP address with a central server. This could prove a useful part in the puzzle of figuring out how to take advantage of EC2’s dynamic nature.