Hi!
just want to know abou this.
does anyone use gentoo as production servers, like mail, dns, mysql,
web,ntp ,etc..
Yes, our whole infrastructure is based on gentoo (firewall, mail, dns,
mysql, ldap, filer, backup etc.). Furthermore our setup is based on
linux vserver [1], which is an awesome project! This gives use great
flexibility and helps us to securely chain the different services with a
relative small amount of hardware.
and how about cfengine server?
I'm not using it, but as far as I know there's a gentoo ebuild as well
as a portage integration for it. I think the gentoo core infrastructure
team is using cfengine.
As soon as the shadow chroot patch [2] from GLEP 27 [3] is implemented,
we will be able to build striped down gentoo instances without any
development dependencies (with the help of the emerge ROOT environment
variable) in a sane and easy way.
After that, I would like to implement a combination of radmind [4] and
subversion for our gentoo infrastructure.
If you're interested in gentoo (or any other OS/distribution) on
production server and you're going to manage more than 5-10 machines,
then you should think about building an "infrastructure" [5]. An
important part of your infrastructure, especially on a gentoo based one,
would be a build server or "gold server" which builds and provides
packages for your different end servers. Also consider to use a
versioning system at least for your config files.
Last but not least I really recommend you to have a test environment ;)
hope this helps.
regards,
Chris
[1] http://linux-vserver.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml
[2]
http://soc.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/glep0027/patches/shadow-4.0.16-chroot.patch?rev=48&view=markup
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html
[4] http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/
[5] http://www.infrastructures.org/
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