So you understand, it only takes about 10 minutes to set up on a new vm. Just have a postgres server somewhere for the database. The only slow part is waiting for the channels to sync.
Just make sure you have a locally usable FQDN already configured on the box forward and back and your life will be *much* easier. -Blake On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Chuck Payne <terror...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jon, > > If you are taking care of a lot of RHEL or CentOS boxes, the answer is > Yes! I use it to kickstart my servers, both physical and virtual. I > use it to maintance and patch my servers. You can also use it to > monitor them as well. Can use it as a low level cvs for conifig files, > though I think puppet is better. > > Pup > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Jon Moore <supermegat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > What features of spacewalk are you using? I'm in this area where the > whole > > idea looks cool and seems impressive, but I do wonder how much profit > I'll > > get out of all the setup and additional maintenance. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jon M > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Blake Dunlap <iki...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> I use spacewalk and puppet for even just my home ecosystem. Wouldn't go > >> back. It makes management of updates etc so much easier. > >> > >> -Blake > >> > >> On Feb 18, 2014 11:11 AM, "Jon Moore" <supermegat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> I have a handful of CentOS servers running various bits and pieces for > a > >>> small WISP. These servers are spread across bare metal, esxi virtual > >>> machines and a couple kvm guests. In due time, I expect the esxi host > to be > >>> removed and it's machines migrated/moved to kvm. > >>> > >>> Each server does one thing, and usually one thing only. Configuration > on > >>> those services rarely change after being setup. I've played with > puppet and > >>> chef in the past, but for how few servers I have and how little changes > >>> there are it proved to be more work that it was worth. > >>> > >>> Having said all that, I've been looking for a better solution for a > local > >>> mirror than just syncing everything. I've seen spacewalk often in the > past > >>> come up as an option for local mirrors with some extra goodies. My > >>> question, have any of you used spacewalk in the past? If so, was it > worth > >>> the investment of setting it up and running ( for just a handful of > >>> servers)? > >>> > >>> I see in the documentation it now supports some provisioning and > >>> management of kvm. 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