Context
The LSST-DM effort, even during the current construction phase, has a very large and complex IT infrastructure. The vast majority of our IT assets are under automated configuration management (CM). In June 2017, the Summit-Base ITC Design Tiger Team adopted Puppet as the de-facto standard tool for this job. Adoption of common tools and methods for CM facilitates immense effort savings, consistency across the infrastructure, better cyber security, policy & standards compliance and better service delivery. CM infrastructure and processes are essential to operating & deploying any large IT infrastructure.
The effort to build a consolidated CM infrastructure for LSST is a joint effort between the Summit-Base ITC Design, PDAC and infrastructure working groups.
Purpose
This page is an aggregation point for all things related to IT configuration management. The goal is to engage stakeholders, solicit input to guide decisions, disseminate useful information to the user community and act as a forum to guide continuous improvement.