[Planetlab-devel] node groups & conf files

[Marc E. Fiuczynski]

Was just having a discussion with Stephen about what was needed for the 
4.2 release in terms of conf file updates for different node groups 
(e.g., populating /etc/yum.repos.d with, say, an alpha nodegroup 
specific planetlab.repo file).  During this discussion we came to the 
realization that the conf file support, while it works, is just a poor 
man's reinvention of other configuration management systems (e.g., 
cfengine).  We should consider looking into switching the whole conf 
file support in myplc to simply use something like cfengine, with the 
goal of having MyPLC+NM just setting up cfengine with the correct 
parameters and letting it do what it does best.

Marc