On 28/01/2011, at 3:35 PM, Carlos A. Carnero Delgado wrote: > Hi there, > > the number of servers we have in my organization -- both physical and > virtual -- is slowly increasing at a steady pace, and the trend will > continue for the foreseeable future. It has come to the point that > apt-get upgrading && updating each one individually, and manually, is > really time consuming and prone to errors. We're looking into stuff > like Puppet and Cfengine, and it seems that either will do fine, but > we have this "feeling" or notion that they're a little bit heavyweight > for our needs. Not to mention the learning curve. > > So, in the context of *only* dealing with installed packages updates > in an automated way[1] and having 8.04 and 10.04 LTS releases in > service, do you guys recommend anything? Did you write custom code? > Has anyone seen Fabric in the context of systems administration?
+1 for the Puppet (or any other configuration management system you feel more comfortable with). I've used bconfig at a previous place and managed several hundred servers with vastly differing configurations. Admittedly, within that corpus of servers, there was a modicum of commonality between classes of servers; such as all the MySQL servers, all the mail servers, all the file servers, etc. As Clint Byrum has mentioned, a configuration management system is a great asset with flow-on benefits too. A little pain initially for a LOT of gain in the long term. Cheers, James
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