landscape vs puppet

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Steve George 

| On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 07:43 +1000, Dave Kempe wrote:
| > Hi,
| > I haven't seen any mention of Landscape before the recent one on the 
| > list. Can we have more information about this product vs puppet or 
| > similar tools?
| 
| Landscape doesn't compete directly with puppet or the other
| configuration management tools. 
| 
| When we did some analysis on where people found Linux difficult to
| manage some of common requirements were:
| 
| a.  We need to be able to visualise issues before we can resolve them
| b.  There's a set of common administration things our staff do that are
| unproductive
| c.  It's hard to manage security (packages) across a range of machines

FWIW, c. is one of the main things I use puppet for, but it's less
about the visualisation and more about just applying updates.

It could be interesting to see a way for landscape to plug in to other
management systems such as puppet, so I could manage my puppet pkgsync
receipes from within landscape.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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