Deployment Automation: Chef, Puppet, Ansible - Which one do you use?

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Hi,

are you using Chef, Puppet or Ansible (or others) to automatically deploy your systems?

Did you move to another solution (e.g. from Chef to Puppet or Puppet to Ansible)? If so, why?

Thanks and best regards, Martin

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Answer by Mathieu G. · Apr 22, 2015 at 01:58 PM

Hello,

We use Puppet to deploy agents. And we prepare the Servers and the collectors.

Did you have a chance to work on it already?

Would be nice to hear from you - I saw your Update on the blog... and I was with Jari yesterday and we briefly talked about that.

http://apmblog.dynatrace.com/2015/02/05/top-devops-tools-love/

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Martin E. · Apr 23, 2015 at 03:07 PM 0

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Hello Mathieu,

thanks for providing your feedback. Unfortunately, the resource that was working on Chef and Puppet had to move on to other priorities.

We are expecting contributions from the community but they will most probably not be in a shareable state.

So much for now, will keep you posted on this page.

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Answer by Sreerag M. · Apr 23, 2015 at 05:55 AM

Hi,

We used Chef for agent deployment on app servers. Basically every new (windows) server being built by Chef will have dynatrace agents setup on it.

On windows we set the environment variable to disable the agent and enable it when we are ready to instrument the application. App teams likes this control on instrumentation like they enable/disable features in their app.

The part where we are struggling is with agents on Linux server. Agents on linux servers cannot be disabled or enabled like windows, so we setup agents manually after code deployment.

we have an RFE RFE: Feature to enable/disable java agents submitter for this feature

-Sreerag

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Answer by Martin E. · Apr 27, 2015 at 08:02 PM

Hi Sreerag,

please see my answer in your RFE.

Best, Martin

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Answer by Martin E. · Jul 10, 2015 at 01:29 PM

Ansible, Chef and Puppet resources for Dynatrace installations are available here:

If you get to use them, please provide some feedback.

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Answer by David W. · Sep 08, 2015 at 05:37 PM

Anyone using HPSA (Opsware)?

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