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thanks a lot joe, that precisely answers my question


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Joe Topjian <joe.topjian at cybera.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Puppet is a configuration management system. It's a high level way of
> describing how systems should be configured. For example, using Puppet, you
> can configure several servers to have the package "foobar" installed and
> the service "barbaz" running.
>
> More info about Puppet can be found here:
> https://puppetlabs.com/puppet/what-is-puppet/
>
> Cobbler, on the other hand, is a project that helps you deploy operating
> systems onto servers. The servers can be bare-metal or virtual.
>
> More info about Cobbler can be found here: http://www.cobblerd.org/
>
> Puppet and Cobbler provide two very different services but they can both
> work well together. I use Cobbler to install bare-metal servers with Ubuntu
> by way of PXE booting. Once Ubuntu has been installed, Cobbler triggers
> some post-install scripts to bootstrap Puppet. Puppet then takes over and
> configures Ubuntu to a final configuration state (such as running
> OpenStack).
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Joe
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Baktha Ashokan <baktha.sg at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi There,
>>
>>  Whats the difference between puppet and cobbler? whats the special use
>> of them?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Baktha.
>>
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>
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> Joe Topjian
> Systems Administrator
> Cybera Inc.
>
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>
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> of cyberinfrastructure.
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