I want to learn puppet!

 Well .. Here's your typical "I haven't posted anything on my blog in a long time" post  .. I've been completely swamped at work since we've lost a tech support guy and I've had to pick up the slack and take support calls again (blaah!). My fun in JRuby has been limited at least at work.

 But my interest has been sparked again because of this great software tool called "Puppet" -http://www.puppetlabs.com/. While you don't really need to know Ruby to use it .. I'm scanning over the code to help me learn.

 This software is nothing short of amazing! (Once you learn it). You can completely automate the management of Linux/Unix systems. Because of its abstraction layer it makes it easy to have a single recipe that will work on various different Linux distro's.

 Once I'm comfortable with it, I want to use it to help manage my Amazon EC2 cloud customers. I can have them boot up a pre-built AMI (Amazon Machine Instance) that will have the puppet client installed on it... Then have it contact a puppetmaster server to get its configuration layout and then deploy away baby! This mixed with "Capistrano" - http://www.capify.org/index.php/Capistrano is going to be AWESOME!

I'll write up posts as I learn both of these apps ..It'll be fun!

Until next time .. >:-/