<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Erik Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik.mitchell@gmail.com" target="_blank">erik.mitchell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":h4">The Best Buy guys are using Chef, and have been happy with it. Puppet<br>
was mentioned in one of the sessions I attended, but the team decided<br>
to use Chef instead.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Yah, I've tried out Chef as well. Didn't care for it.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Ansible seems to fit the bill in many ways for our project - it's python-based, and we're all python devs, so that works well. Additionally, it operates over "vanilla" ssh, and doesn't require any client-side code other than a python interpreter, which is very nice for keeping things clean and simple.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":h4">
They also said if you're not using one of these tools you're doing it wrong :)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>If by "one of these", they meant a configuration management system, I'd agree with that.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":h4">
Let me know if you want I can put you in touch with the guys who were<br>
giving the talk.</div></blockquote></div><br>Bryan had his contact info on one of his slides, so I'm all set.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks!</div></div>