Re: Puppet Module for Virtualization Management

[Justin Clift <jclift@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/06/2010 12:42 AM, Carla Araujo wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Puppet [0] is an Open Source data center automation and configuration
> management framework. Puppet provides system administration with a
> simplified platform that allows for consistent, transparent, and flexible
> system management. Puppet can be extended with new modules, which are
> reusable, sharable units of Puppet code.
>
> This year, during the Google Summer of Code [1], I developed a new Puppet's
> module: Puppet-virt. Puppet-virt [2] provides a new type that allows the
> administrator to deploy and manage virtual machines using r *uby-libvirt* .
> At first, only Xen fullyvirtualization, Xen paravirtualization, KVM and
> OpenVZ are supported.

Cool, nifty project.

Seems quite useful, so I should really get around to checking out Puppet. :)