Welcome and discussion starter

John.Florian at dart.biz John.Florian at dart.biz
Wed Feb 13 17:11:43 UTC 2013


> > Being flexible is important, both to those who create as well as those
> > who will use formulas. If we stick to one configuration management
> > system, we lose some flexibility and choice. It seems ansible is the
> > choice most want, but what is the harm in having alternates available?
> 
> I think the harm is confusion, spreading of resources and difficulty in
> testing/qa/infrastructure. If we have a base set of templates for say
> ansible, and someone makes a formula in puppet, that could very well
> behave differently. 

I suspect they would end up behaving differently despite our best attempts 
and intentions.  For example:

https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7165

I don't mean to pick on puppet specifically, just to illustrate that you 
can't always get what you ask for.  If this bug affected a formula, for 
good or bad, things are certainly going to change once that bug is 
resolved and despite your best efforts, you now have new and different 
behavior.  If we stick with just one CM platform, we minimize these kind 
of undesired variations.
--
John Florian

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