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 at 2:27 PM, Matthew Palmer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > solutions > > similar to that of Red Hat Network? > > At work, we use (and built) a tool called 'tingle' > (https://github.com/anchor/tingle), which handles it all for us across our > internal and managed-for-customers infrastructures. > > Personally, I don't run CentOS, but I use unattended-upgrades on my > personal > herd of Debian machines, which works well enough. > > - Matt > > -- > A woman in liquor production / Owns a still of exquisite construction. > The alcohol boils / Through magnetic coils. > She says that it's "proof by induction." > -- http://limerickdb.com/?34 > > >
