Configuration Management Tools

Question 1

What addresses the need to provision and manage large amounts of systems?

Answer 1

Configuration Management tool

Question 2

What introduces the idea s infrastructure as code?

Answer 2

Configuration Management tool

Question 3

What are common configuration management tools?

Answer 3

Ansible, chef, puppet and salt

Question 4

Uses a single management node?

Answer 4

Ansible

Question 5

Implements a client server model

Answer 5

puppet

Question 6

Provides both a client server and agentless models

Answer 6

salt

Question 7

Contains inventory files, playbooks modules etc.

Answer 7

Ansible

Question 8

Contains facts, manifest file and catalogs

Answer 8

Puppet

Question 9

Contains cookbooks, recipies and attributes

Answer 9

chef

Question 10

contains salt minions, salt masters, zeromq and grains

Answer 10

salt

Question 11

Puppet

Answer 11

implements a client server model
one or more servers run on puppet server
managed nodes run the puppet agent
agents send system info facts to the server
the puppet server compiles a catalog file based on the system info and the manifest file
the manifest file is created using puppet code and can have one or more sections
the puppet agent receives operational instructions from the catalog file