On 01/28/2011 10:49 AM, John Pugh wrote: > Sounds to me like you need landscape [1]. Simple, administrative way via > a browser to see and manage updates to the entire server infrastructure. > > JP > [1] https://landscape.canonical.com/ +1 on landscape. Not to be a "company man" :), or discount the other great solutions mentioned, but landscape is indeed a quick and easy way to accomplish what you are looking for.
> > On 01/27/2011 11:35 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] Please note that automated here really means "bulk updating" started >> from a command (or thingie) given by an administrator. It should not >> be interpreted as autonomously contacting repos. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Carlos. >> > > -- Robbie Williamson <[email protected]> robbiew[irc.freenode.net] "You can't be lucky all the time, but you can be smart everyday" -Mos Def "Arrogance is thinking you are better than everyone else, while Confidence is knowing no one else is better than you." -Me ;) -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
