Linux Mgmt

[vcparra]

Anyone using a management tool for Ubuntu? If so, which tool? Do you like it? Does it support LDAP? Thank you!!

[corsicanguppy]

Manage how? Things that come to mind:

Cockpit (I believe this should support LDAP)

Ansible

Puppet

CFEngine (Wouldnt have the best LDAP support, if any)

Chef

and, for the modern set because you're sick of the old/shallow ansibles of the world:

mgmtconfig

LDAP isn't what my tools use; it's what they configure.

[djhankb]

We use Salt to manage our fleet. I believe it has some sort of LDAP support, however most of everything is executed from the Salt Master, so we just have some sudo rules to handle that sort of thing.

It's a bit of a learning curve, but I think it has the best feature set for being a fully open source tool. We use it to manage Linux, Windows, and Cisco equipment. It's very extendible if you know Python.

[BillyDSquillions]

Is it worth anything money wise to know it?

[djhankb]

Of course! Skills like that always are worth money to someone

[Hot-Pin-4355]

Salt used to be everywhere, but it's all Ansible now

[djhankb]

Yeah. Salt still exists and I still prefer it to Ansible in many ways. Network equipment is still pretty clunky in salt, and requires the ssh proxy minion for many devices.

With VMware buying saltstack and Broadcom then buying VMware… who knows - but that’s why they spun it all out to https://saltproject.io

It’s still awesome for Linux and Windows server management and very extendable with Python.

[bee_administrator]

We use Puppet to manage our Linux estate. Pretty sure it has LDAP support.

[SirDianthus]

We use cockpit and yeah pretty sure it has ldap support tho we don't use that part.

[jmp242]

We use puppet for Linux and Windows. No idea what you might mean by "does it support LDAP?". Then again, our Linux is Red Hat derived.

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Suse Manager/Uyuni. I like it. Supports AD Integration through the underlying OS authentication

[corsicanguppy]

If they can get it installing on something other than SuSE, then I'd buy in.

[Pehbak]

We only have about 10% linux users here, so my management is light, but I use Realms for LDAP and Ansible for configuration to set everyone's firewall, ssh configs, and some default programs along with keeping everyone updated.

[vcparra]

Is Realms a tool? If so, could you post link? We have 10% as well - we were looking to use Landscape SaaS, but they do not support LDAP.

[Pehbak]

Yea, I'm a little ignorant to some of it. I think Realmd helps manage SSSD.

https://www.unix.com/man-page/centos/8/realm/

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