<p><pre><code> You don't have to know about yum, apt or whatever package manager your hosts use thanks to synapse-agent's abstraction layer.
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Except, of course, that a sysadmin who doesn't know this is not a sysadmin. And someone who tries installing the same package across different operating systems is going to be in for a shock when it turns out that they have the same name for different versions, or different names for the same version, or completely different ways of configuring it.<p>This looks neat, but I don't see anything that says they have learned lessons from puppet, bcfg2 and cfengine.
I am looking forward to reading more about this. For a slightly different approach (Python + 0MQ) with a very active community, please check out <a href="http://saltstack.org/" rel="nofollow">http://saltstack.org/</a>
There's no mention of it on the video or the page, but it seems safe to presume that there's no support for Windows-based servers? Or am I just missing it?