Feature #1604

Comparison

Added by Cosmin Neagu over 3 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:Closed Start date:09/24/2008
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:Nigel Kersten % Done:

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Category:documentation
Target version:-
Affected Puppet version:0.24.4 Branch:
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Votes: 0

Description

I was looking for a cfengine replacement and I stumbled upon Puppet … it sound pretty nice but it would be usefull to have some kind of comparison to the current competitors. My partner started using Quattor and if we were to switch to Puppet it would be nice to see what does Puppet better than Quattor (or the other current competitors), what is Quattor better at … Many might have a hard time deciding and in the end there is the risk of choosing the wrong software for that job.

Such a comparison chart would certainly make anyone trust Puppet more.

History

#1
Updated by James Turnbull over 3 years ago

  • Category set to documentation
  • Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs More Information

Have you seen this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software

Does that answer your questions?

#2
Updated by Andrew Shafer over 3 years ago

Puppet owes a lot to cfengine and Luke’s years of experience with cfengine in the field. There are plenty of article on cfengine written by Luke still floating around.

Here’s a in depth comparison of Puppet and Cfengine.

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/CfengineVsPuppet

#3
Updated by Cosmin Neagu over 3 years ago

Unfortunately the wikipedia link offers very little information (language, license, release dates and platform support). It would be very useful to have a page that describes why would someone choose Puppet over Quattor (in my case).

Getting to know Puppet and it’s competitors to such details as to make the right choice is not a trivial task but the developers working on Puppet can surely do this allot easier.

As an example:

Puppet vs. Quattor: Puppet scales down better is easier to setup. Quattor scales up better after 10000 machines (I have no idea if this is true :)

Puppet vs. cfengine: Puppet is the next generation cfengine … it handles this and that better (and how) and it makes “whatever” possible (something cfengine couldn’t do at all)

Puppet vs. Radmind: Radmind is not open source and has problems managing … whatever…

A list such of this would make Puppet more trustworthy because it shows that the developers know about the weaknesses of Puppet and are probably working towards fixing the problems. It also shows the interest of the developers in helping the users make the best choice even if that might not be Puppet.

#4
Updated by Peter Meier over 3 years ago

A list such of this would make Puppet more trustworthy because it shows that the developers know about the weaknesses of Puppet and are probably working towards fixing the problems. It also shows the interest of the developers in helping the users make the best choice even if that might not be Puppet.

most of the puppet pages are wikipages, so feel free to add stuff.

#5
Updated by James Turnbull over 3 years ago

  • Assignee set to Cosmin Neagu
  • Target version set to 4

Feel free to contribute to the wiki as immerda has indicated.

#6
Updated by Nigel Kersten over 1 year ago

  • Status changed from Needs More Information to Closed
  • Assignee changed from Cosmin Neagu to Nigel Kersten

As per the below thread, we’re more aggressively closing tickets whose state is unsure, particularly old tickets with little to no inactivity in a long time.

You are free to reopen them.

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/a040cb9bc5c5b647

#7
Updated by James Turnbull about 1 year ago

  • Target version deleted (4)

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