Hi, I'm playing around with some ideas to manage a large (10K) number of debian machines and a friend suggested that I had a look at debtags to solve the "problem of classes". Basically I need to maintain a list of boxes and what they do (what classes they belong to, ie web, db, email) and install software and configs (which are managed as deb packages) accordingly. Do you believe debtags could be used for this? for example what if the tag was the name of the machine? can you use regular expressions in tags so that you could have stuff like web[0-9]+ meaning that all boxes named like that would get those packages? Are there limitations on the length of the tag, number of tags, or total length of the field? would it cause performance problems to have a few hundreds tags assigned to a package?
And just to mention, I'm aware of solutions like puppet, cfengine and the like, but we'd like to keep it as debian as possible because we already have quite a bit of infrastructure in place to manage things that way and it looks like with some tricks it should work just fine (maybe not with debtags tho, but rather with custom repository structures, don't know yet). thanks -- "Behind every great man there's a great backpack" - B. _______________________________________________ Debtags-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debtags-devel
