[Cialug] Prepping new servers

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to minimize the amount of time (or more importantly, the number
> of steps) needed to bring a server up ready to run a certain configuration.
> The software needed is a combination of debian packages and python modules
> as well as some python code checked out from a git repo.
> What would you do? For the moment I'm deploying to EC2 so if there's
> something especially EC2 helpful I'm happy to hear about it.

Right now I'm using foreman[1] plus puppet to deploy/manage servers.
Not sure if foreman does anything special for EC2 (as I've never used
EC2).  I really like foreman even though it's a bit rough around the
edges right now.

[1] http://theforeman.org/

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Jeff Ollie