If you have configuration that uses template configuration files, you are practising neither configuration as code nor configuration as data. Having configuration locked away in template files reduces its visibility, and makes it hard for you to query it. It might be easier to write configuration code to use templates, but it will come back to bite you.
[1 comment]Basic Nagios support was recently added to pallet, and while very simple to use, this blog post should make it even simpler. The overall philosophy is to configure the nagios service monitoring definitions along with the service itself, rather than have monolithic nagios configuration, divorced from the configuration of the various nodes.
I recently needed to move a server from dedicated hosting to a cloud server. The existing server had been configured over time by several people, with little documentation. I want to make sure that this time everything was documented, and what better way than doing that than using an automated configuration tool.