[ale] Cron Management

[DjPfulio]

Puppet overview presentation for ale?
 Perhaps May?

On 19 January 2016 10:52:06 GMT-05:00, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>Below…
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>Jerald Sheets
>questy at gmail.com
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>> On Jan 19, 2016, at 10:19 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
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>> For really complex needs, people use Ansible to manage puppet
>environments. ;)
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>If you have to do this, you just don’t Puppet good.  Completely
>unnecessary, and we’re partners of both companies.  Each one is a
>targeted use to slightly different purposes and in slightly different
>ways according to the companies themselves.
>
>Having traveled the US and implementing Puppet as well as doing
>professional services on behalf of Puppet Labs directly for Huge and
>small companies (over 40 now), I can corroborate this first-hand.
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>> Both tools have their strengths.  I'd use Ansible to manage cron and
>scripts to
>> manage completion dependencies with "lock files" to prevent tasks
>from running
>> before they can/should.
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>The “cron” and “schedule” resources manhandle precisely this use case
>in both the Community and Enterprise products.  The functionality is
>nearly identical between Puppet and Ansible.  Again, I think you have a
>preference.  The technologies don’t really supplant each other here.
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>> Of course, judicious bash scripting would clean up any
>> of these files automatically (see Michael Porter's Bash Scripting
>presentation
>> for trap info).
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>I’ve nearly been able to eliminate carting around my library of BASH. 
>It’s mostly manifests now (or recipes depending on the implementation).
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>> Yep. I'd use Ansible. Plus it looks good on a current resume. ;)
>
>Of course, it’s a RedHat product now, so I’m sure the certification
>will put it in the doghouse with us ALE-ers here soon.  ;)
>
>You’re right, though.  ANYTHING automation or DEVOPS-y in nature is
>making my phone melt.  Hence I no longer include my phone number in my
>online profiles or the resume stored in GitHub.
>
>—j
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