howto/cumin.md

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 [Python virtualenv]: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/
 [briefly described in the Wikimedia docs]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cumin#PuppetDB_host_selection
 [parallel-ssh]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/parallel-ssh/
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+# Discussion
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+ * [Choria](https://choria.io/) - to be evaluated
+ * Ansible?
+ * Puppet mcollective?
+ * simple SSH loop from LDAP output
+ * [parallell-ssh][]
+ * see also the [list in the Puppet docs](puppet#other-ways-of-extracting-a-host-list)
+ 
+  [parallel-ssh]: https://parallel-ssh.org/
+