Someone recently asked me – ‘What would your perfect configuration management tool look like?’. It took awhile to come up with the answer for the question; after all, configuration management is a large and complex subject. On top of that, who can ever really say what the perfect anything would be? I [...]
I realize most of the time I end up complaining about Opsware – that’s generally because it’s part of the human condition. We say stuff when we’re upset or angry or don’t like something. How many times have you ever called up the phone company to tell them ‘Great job!’
Yeah, I thought so.
So I figured [...]
I’ve been getting back into the swing of things and trying to organize my life in an effort to regain my sanity. One of those things that I’ve been trying to do is get back into Opsware. You can find a couple articles of mine where I express my.. dislike.. for certain aspects [...]
Been really busy at work moving forward with Opsware and trying to reach our milestones. Hopefully I’ll have some updates in a bit about what’s been going on and some more info on our progress with the tool.
The more I use Opsware, the more I don’t understand about this product.
I finally dove into the application configurations which try and use CML ( an Opsware templating language ) to model how a file should look. It’s not the best language by any means but we’ll skip over that small detail for now. [...]
