Happy to help if you have questions. Suggest making a master channel with no packages for the major version, and using child channels even for the base channel. It makes it much easier to do point upgrades later.
-Blake On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jon Moore <supermegat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've attempted a setup in the past, maybe 2 years ago now. The > installation was pretty quick. Just added their repo, and did some yum > installs. However, once I was "up and running" and I never could quite > figure out how to get from I have a new spacewalk server up to actually > having the channels and what-have-you all setup right to where it actually > works. I'll give this another shot, it sounds like it could be helpful. > > Thanks! > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Blake Dunlap <iki...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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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