[clug] Distributed Administration

[Alex Satrapa]

On 24/09/2009, at 20:57 , Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Alex Satrapa <alexsatrapa at mac.com> writes:
>> Some ideas I've seen are:
>> - Cluster SSH (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/) *
>
> You already said you don't like this, but just to reinforce that:  
> this is not
> a software management solution, this is a (bad, IMO) tool for doing  
> the same
> thing on multiple machines.

Yes :)

I would view managing multiple hosts using Cluster SSH as a sport in  
the same vein as gladiator fights (the old Roman style, where people  
actually die).

One of the guys at work has pointed me in the direction of Bryan  
McLellan's work involving installing Debian/Ubuntu images from PXE  
boot, managing with capistrano and puppet. Should be interesting  
reading for the weekend.

Thanks to everyone for the help so far
Alex