[Cialug] LAMP/installers/distros

[Jeff Chapin]

You can (and likely should) be leveraging the OS packages even if
using ansible/puppet.

In puppet you can specify to use the OS repos, and either install a
given version, *OR* install the 'latest', what ever that is.

You get the benefits of the OS repos, without needing a manual step on
every server you manage :-D

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> Puppet and Ansible are great, but I do want to point out that they are
> probably not the best tool for someone who's not super confident installing
> packages on a Linux server.
>
> One benefit of using packages is the stability and security updates
> provided by the vendor. I.e. your PHP version won't magically update over
> night to an incompatible version. If your OS is supported by the vendor
> (for example, Ubuntu LTS for 5 years) then you will get security updates
> for packages without breaking compatibility.
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Puppet does not require a master -- you can easily run an agent in
>> > standalone mode.
>>
>> OK, I guess I've purged that memory from my brain. Mea culpa. :)
>>
>> Architecture aside, myself and my fellow engineers here have found
>> Ansible code to be orders of magnitude easier to understand, debug,
>> and apply.
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