alt Hacker NewsWhy aren't you using the tools we already have: ansible, salt, chef, puppet, bcfg2, cfengine... every one of which was designed to do systems administration at scale.
Why aren't you using the tools we already have: ansible, salt, chef, puppet, bcfg2, cfengine... every one of which was designed to do systems administration at scale.
"Why would you use a new tool when other tools already exist?".
Agents are here. Maybe a fad, maybe a mainstay. Doesn't hurt to play around with them and understand where you can (and can't) use them