Mac configuration management at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Allan B Marcus · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2010
The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) had a need for central configuration management of non-Windows computers. LANL has three to five thousand Macs and an equal number of Linux based systems. The primary goal was to be able to inventory all non-windows systems and patch Mc OS X systems. LANL examined a number of commercial and open source solutions and ultimately selected Puppet. This paper will discuss why we chose Puppet, how we implemented it, and some lessons we learned along the way.