On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 21:43, Christopher Brown <[email protected]> wrote: ... > I would like all the machines to be identical, and I would like to be able > to update packages automatically. My question is, what is the best way to > deploy and maintain this environment onto several networked machines?
We have recently migrated our cluster (21 multicore blades) to oneSIS: http://onesis.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneSIS I can now edit the master (say, to install new RPMs) and it is visible in real-time since the blades use a ram disk approach. A few directories are excluded from the shared part to allow for "personal" data on each blade, i.e. to avoid that log files or daemons interfere. Pretty happy with that installation. Markus -- Markus Neteler, PhD Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) - Research and Innovation Centre Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology Head of GIS and Remote Sensing Unit Via E. Mach, 1 - 38010 S. Michele all'Adige (TN), Italy Web: http://gis.cri.fmach.it - http://grass.osgeo.org Email: markus.neteler AT fmach.it
