Configuration management tools

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It would be nice to include config management tools like Chef and/or Puppet.

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Hello Vincent,

What do you mean exactly by include them?

In 7.2 you could find Puppet in EPEL. Did you take a look if it is in rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms, too? Currently I could not enable the repository to take a look.

Regards, Joerg

Yes, i could find puppet, ansible included in EPEL..

[root@space Desktop]# yum list puppet ansible
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, search-disabled-repos, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Available Packages
ansible.noarch                                                  2.1.1.0-1.el6                                                   epel
puppet.noarch                                                   2.7.26-2.el6                                                    epel
[root@space Desktop]# 

There is plenty of CfgMgm tools like Ansible, Cfengine, Chef, Puppet, Salt and the vendors usually provide RPM repositories for RHEL6/7, so there is no need to have everything in RHEL/EPEL.

Well, there could be an advantage to have some of these tools in the official Red Hat repositories if you could get support from Red Hat for these packages.

With a Red Hat Standard Subscription you get support for software in rhel-?-server-rpms. I do not know if you would get support for packages from the Red Hat Software Collection repo as well. It would be nice to get official Red Hat support for one or some of the configuration management tools.

Red Hat acquired Ansible, so you have a supported there, but the others are independent companies, so if you need support, you may purchase it there, e.g. Cfengine, Puppet, etc.

Do I really get support for Ansible from Red Hat when I purchased a standard subscription? I did not know that. I'm going to write the custormer service and ask for more details on that topic.

Not a standard (you mean RHEL?) subscription, but you may purchase supported Ansible Tower.

Yes, I meant rhel standard subscription. Thanks for your answer and for the clarifacation. :-)

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