Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-13 Thread Nickola Kolev
Hello, On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:42:30 -0500 (EST) Jon Lewis wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Daniel Ankers wrote: > > > I looked into Puppet and though I've got it managing parts of our > > infrastructure it seems quite difficult to bolt on to an existing > > setup. There are also some things that

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-13 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Daniel Ankers wrote: I looked into Puppet and though I've got it managing parts of our infrastructure it seems quite difficult to bolt on to an existing setup. There are also some things that I can't see how to do easily with Puppet ("Don't upgrade packages on the live envi

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-13 Thread Jared Mauch
Sounds like a poorly designed package. Wordpress does a good job of allowing back end updates without impacting the services provided, even with database changes. Part of a well designed and maintained system is the ability to do painless upgrades. Jared Mauch On Jan 12, 2012, at 7:43 PM, J

RE: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-13 Thread Mark Scholten
> Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to > Linux boxes? > > > > Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an > example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source > solutions similar to that of Red Hat Network? We did create

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-13 Thread Daniel Ankers
On 13 January 2012 01:57, Paul Graydon wrote: > On 01/12/2012 03:51 PM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: >>> Something to think about before attempting to centrally manage, your >>> systems actually have to be centrally manageable -- that doesn't happen >

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Graydon
On 01/12/2012 03:51 PM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Graydon
On 01/12/2012 03:51 PM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread chaim.rie...@gmail.com
On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions similar to that of Red Hat Network? Something to think

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > > Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an > example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions > similar to that of Red Hat Network? > Something to think about before attempting to centra

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread John Adams
Here at Twitter we make extensive use of Puppet. It's great, but we had a hard learning curve and much customization to get it to work the way we wanted to. I'd also recommend Chef, which is like Puppet but includes more tools (like a machine database) out of the box. -j On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 a

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to > Linux boxes? > > Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an > example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source soluti

RE: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
Awesome! I remember someone telling me about this before and couldn't remember the name til now... Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: Daniel Ankers [mailto:md1...@md1clv.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:08 PM To: Paul Stewart Subject: Re: Linux Centralized Administr

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Blake Dunlap
I run spacewalk (as mentioned above), and have for some time. Once you get the errata importing set up, it's pretty much full RHN. -Blake

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Jacob Taylor
; -Bret > On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Nitin Mehrotra wrote: > >> We use puppet - http://puppetlabs.com/. >> >> Works good for us. >> >> Nitin >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Paul Stewart" >> To: nanog@nanog.

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Bret Palsson
e - > From: "Paul Stewart" > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:02:49 PM > Subject: Linux Centralized Administration > > Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to > Linux boxes? > > > > Today, we manua

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Nitin Mehrotra
We use puppet - http://puppetlabs.com/. Works good for us. Nitin - Original Message - From: "Paul Stewart" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:02:49 PM Subject: Linux Centralized Administration Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating

RE: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Green, Timothy
We are using Security Blanket. It's a COTs product that works really well -Original Message- From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:c...@wpi.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:10 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Linux Centralized Administration On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:02

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to > Linux boxes? > > > > Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an > example but a good one.  I have heard there are some open source solutions >

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Daniel Ankers
On 12 January 2012 21:02, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to > Linux boxes? > > Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an > example but a good one.  I have heard there are some open source solutions > similar to

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to > Linux boxes? yum > Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an > example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source sol

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:02:49 EST, Paul Stewart said: > Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an > example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions > similar to that of Red Hat Network? You can configure yum-updatesd to download and/or apply n

Linux Centralized Administration

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to Linux boxes? Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions similar to that of Red Hat Network? Cheers, Paul