[Outages-discussion] Avoiding puppet/cfengine as the next SPOF

[Jay Ashworth]

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Conrad Heiney" <conrad at fringehead.org>

> Centralized configuration is necessary. It is also the new SPOF.

I would assert that if it is, you're not driving it correctly. 

Sure, you need it on things as big as the Googleplex.  But that doesn't mean
that you can't use Tom Limoncelli's celebrated "one, few, many, all" 
staged deployment approach, when setting up pushes.

In fact, it's *easier*, since you know that they'll all get the same 
configuration.

You have to be careful about interdependencies, of course, but that --
again -- is something computers are pretty good at.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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