puppet + spacewalk is awesome, just saying =) -Blake
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/13/2014 02:16 PM, Brian Pitts wrote: > >> Puppet is great, for sure. In this specific case, I'm not sure it would >> have helped. It's still easy to have drift of packages versions in a >> Puppetized environment if you aren't methodical about rolling out >> updates. This is especially true for packages like the kernel, which >> require intervention for the update to take effect. To solve this within >> puppet, I suppose you could have it ensure that only a specific kernel >> version was installed, or have it manage your GRUB configuration and >> specify a specific kernel version to boot. It may be smarter to solve >> the problem at the repository level. >> >> > Kent does not have to run very fast to convince me about a configuration > management system. We kinda, sorta have a home-grown set of scripts that > take the configuration management role. We do need to migrate to one of > the packages. Resources? bwahahahaha... > > Brian is correct. If we build and ship five or ten a week, the time spent > on configuration management pays for itself quickly. Once a month, the > recipe has to be re-qualified every time. > > Howard > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
