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Learn Chef, Puppet, configuration management, and automation

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Re: Learn Chef, Puppet, configuration management, and automation

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Post by angersock »

rubinelli wrote: post #9
angersock wrote: post #7

Minor thing: would you mind having the logos for Chef, Puppet, etc. actually link to those sites? Seems kind of mean not to.

Let me play devil's advocate: This is a landing page. The very last thing you want in a landing page is to send your visitor to another site. They have enough traffic as it is; they don't need the OP's.

This site offers (if I read it correctly, which I may not have) training on these devops tools and platforms, right?

Being able to go and look at those sites to learn what the tools are and why I might need training would be useful--seeing the Chef docs might make me appreciate this service even more.

Re: Learn Chef, Puppet, configuration management, and automation

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Post by makerops »

angersock wrote: post #11
rubinelli wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me play devil's advocate: This is a landing page. The very last thing you want in a landing page is to send your visitor to another site. They have enough traffic as it is; they don't need the OP's.

This site offers (if I read it correctly, which I may not have) training on these devops tools and platforms, right? Being able to go and look at those sites to learn what the tools are and why I might need training would be useful--seeing the Chef docs might make me appreciate this service even more.

I agree with you, I should have linked to them; when I get a chance I'll do so; it was one of those things that just didn't occur to me.

Re: Learn Chef, Puppet, configuration management, and automation

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Post by [deleted] »

angersock wrote: post #11
rubinelli wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me play devil's advocate: This is a landing page. The very last thing you want in a landing page is to send your visitor to another site. They have enough traffic as it is; they don't need the OP's.

This site offers (if I read it correctly, which I may not have) training on these devops tools and platforms, right? Being able to go and look at those sites to learn what the tools are and why I might need training would be useful--seeing the Chef docs might make me appreciate this service even more.

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Re: Learn Chef, Puppet, configuration management, and automation

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Post by jjsz »

What about other tools like: Open Source PaaSs, Open Virtual Machine Formats, OpenShift, OpenStack, Cloudify, CloudFoundry, Hyper V, KVM, Xen (XCP), Virtual Box, AMI, LXC, OpenVZ, GlusterFS, Ceph, OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT), Sheepdog, OpenFiler, Provisioning and Monitoring tools, like you said Orchestration/Automation & Configuration Management tools, Cobbler, Spacewalk, Kickstart, others like Cfengine, Cacti/RRDTool, Nagios, Zabbix, Zenoss, Capistrano, RunDeck, Func, MCollective, and others. Then probably choices between choosing the OS: Debian, Fedora, maybe Arch Linux for those that like that.

These, and probably others that I don't know, are the choices that someone, who believes in not pursuing in anything proprietary, that also wants to learn to build an OpenSource IaaS, or PaaS stack for their product- are researching into but cannot find a straightforward guide. Advocating working with OSS, and teaching people how to use OSS tools will lead to more jobs, so keep at it. I subscribed to your email list...

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