Puppet

When operations needs an installation manual, wouldn't it be better to provide them with the exact instructions on how to install? Yes, we use Ansible or Puppet!

Linkdump for Hello World with Puppet: https://www.scriptrock.com/getting-started-with-puppet-labs

Managing Windows machines from Linux

To manage machines is one thing, but logging in to Windows machines with RDP seems a total waste of time to me. So I need something else. Just headless machines maintenance from a linux host with Python.

For communications with the Windows machines I will use wmic.
http://www.iggyt.org/doku.php?id=wiki:infrastructure_tools:wmi:wmi-linux_client-wmic

After installing with yum I make a virtual environment with my favourite user and install wmi-wrapper
https://github.com/kanzure/python-wmi-client-wrapper