John Willis on Puppet
This is a post from Luke's old blog; it is saved here statically for historical purposes, as of October 2008
John Willis of Tivoli fame posted on Puppet last week, after seeing my presentation at OSCON and interviewing me after BarCampNashville:
In all honesty, even though my focus has been on availability and event management in the OSS space, I find myself really intrigued by what Luke is doing with Puppet. In the early days of Tivoli, all the products were bound by the Tivoli Framework. At the core of the Tivoli Framework was the configuration management infrastructure. The Frameworks distribution manager made all the products, such as monitoring, inventory, user administration, and event management, viable in a large shop that had to manage many servers. Even today, as IBM/Tivoli is putting the final nails into the Framework coffin, thousands of Tivoli customers are scrambling to manage their infrastructures with all the new IBM products. As I look at all the extremely interesting OSS ESM tools out there, I struggle to understand how they will all integrate. Maybe in an Infrastructure 2.0 sort of way, the framework might be created by Puppet.
