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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/04/2013 10:02 AM, Nirlay Kundu wrote:
> Which tool would you use for configuration management geared towards
> Openstack api : Chef, Puppet, Saltstack ? If anybody has experience with
> Saltstack, please let me know the advantages , shortcomings.


I would use Heat to orchestrate thing WRT the openstack APIs. On a
per-machine basis, chef, puppet and salt should all be fine for doing
configuration management and can read the metadata that heat provides
onto the machine.

Monty