The Best Buy guys are using Chef, and have been happy with it. Puppet
was mentioned in one of the sessions I attended, but the team decided
to use Chef instead.

They also said if you're not using one of these tools you're doing it wrong :)

Let me know if you want I can put you in touch with the guys who were
giving the talk.

-Erik

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, I'm just curious if anyone is using Ansible[1] in production? After
> getting fed up with puppet, I'm seriously considering moving to Ansible.
> I've spent a couple hours the last few days poking at it, and it's been a
> *much* more pleasant experience than I've had with puppet.
>
> Second, any post-Minnebar thoughts?
>
> The most enjoyable (and useful) session I attended was the monitoring
> session. Among other projects, this session introduced me to Sensu[2], a
> new-ish monitoring framework. I've been using Nagios for years, and it holds
> a dear place in my heart. In my current gig, though, our environment has a
> very high rate of change. Servers get started and destroyed
> programmatically, sometimes on a minute-by-minute basis. This makes using
> legacy monitoring products like Nagios very painful. Sensu uses a
> subscription-based model where clients register themselves with the server
> and "subscribe" to different roles. Based on that role's configuration, the
> server starts checking services on the client. I haven't started playing
> with Sensu yet, but I will likely be doing so in the next few days, as I
> don't want to invest any more time in my Nagios setup if I'm going to be
> deprecating it soon.
>
> Anyway, that's all for now - I'm looking forward to hearing from (hopefully)
> some of you!
>
> Thanks!
> -Erik
>
> [1] http://ansible.cc/
> [2] http://sensuapp.org/
>
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