A list of utilities to support configuration management tools.

This was produced by the panelists of the Configuration Mgmt Workflow panel at LOPSA-EAST in 2013.

One of the attendees also took notes: http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/uncategorized/highlights-from-lopsa-east-2013-configuration-management-workflows-panel

Individual level: IDE / syntax highlighting etc
Puppet: vim - https://github.com/rodjek/vim-puppet
TextMate & sublime text 2 - https://github.com/masterzen/puppet-textmate-bundle
gepetto (http://cloudsmith.github.io/geppetto/), emacs

Chef: vim, TextMate, sublime text 2, emacs?
Sublime Text: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VtDj_ar1Xg (video), https://github.com/cabeca/SublimeChef (GitHub)
Emacs: chef-mode https://github.com/mpasternacki/chef-mode

CFEngine: vim - https://github.com/neilhwatson/vim_cf3 emacs - https://github.com/cfengine/core/blob/master/contrib/cfengine.el kate - https://github.com/cfengine/core/blob/master/contrib/katepart-cfengine.highlight.xml eclipse - https://cfengine.com/eclipse-cfengine-editor Sublime Text - https://github.com/kebori/sublime-cfengine3

Local Testing
Vagrant -
VMware
OpenStack
Cloud?
All of the above?

Revision Control : Which tool? Which workflow?
Github Flow - http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
git-flow - http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
Git Dynamic Environments - https://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-and-puppet-environments/ , https://github.com/adrienthebo/puppet-git-hooks

Commit hooks
Puppet: erb, pp parser, yaml, https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-training-bootstrap/blob/master/modules/fundamentals/files/pre-commit
Chef: fc pre-commit: https://github.com/gregf/chef-git-hooks
CFEngine: Subversion: http://worrbase.com/2012/07/11/cfengine-svn-pre-commit.html Git: https://github.com/cfengine/design-center/tree/master/tools/git-pre-commit

Style / Lint tools
Puppet: puppet-lint - http://puppet-lint.com/, https://github.com/santana/puppet-cleaner,
Chef: tailor, foodcritic
CFEngine: cf-promises (with GCC-style warnings)

Testing manifests / recipes
Puppet: rspec-puppet, ?cucumber-puppet (discontiued)?
Chef: chefspec, minitest-handler, rspec-chef, cucumber-chef, test-kitchen

Marshalling / Assembling Code & Dependencies
Puppet: librarian-puppet - https://github.com/rodjek/librarian-puppet
Chef: berkshelf, librarian
CFEngine: cf-sketch - https://github.com/cfengine/design-center/wiki/Design-Center-Tools

Continuous Integration
Jenkins CI
Travis CI
Atlassian Bamboo?
TeamCity?

Orchestration
Puppet: MCollective
Chef has “knife ssh” and Pushy support coming for push jobs

Canary testing & Prod vs QA vs test environments (not prod vs QA app code)
serverspec http://serverspec.org/
rspec-system https://github.com/puppetlabs/rspec-system
nagios checks/ plugins

Chef has knife-flip from Etsy, flips nodes into a test environment

CFEngine: Remote context class matching using remoteclassesmatching (Enterprise)

Provisioning VM's in the cloud?
Chef:
knife ec2 server create...
spiceweasel somefile.yml
knife openstack...
knife server create...

Clouds include Azure, Openstack, Rackspace, etc.

EC2 OpsWorks (although some limitations since it’s an older version)

Puppet:
puppet node_aws create / puppet node_vmware create
Puppet RAL for AWS, OpenStack, CloudStack:
ec2_instance { “instance_name”: type => t1.large, az => ‘USWest’, ensure => present, …. } Razor (bare metal)

CFEngine: https://github.com/cfengine/design-center/tree/master/sketches/cloud

Crowbar has Chef server integrated, although I don’t know that much about it.
Joyent also has a Chef “dataset” that they support.

Team Workflow
Puppet: -?
Chef: knife-spork (has handlers to notify people)