I agree with what you wrote. Puppet is not the best tool to execute one-shot operations like patching or deploying of applications. It's good at maintaining the state of the resources of our systems, so you can use it to configure what you need to manage the patching or the deployment of a system's package or an application (apt/yum config files, deploy scripts, ssh keys, sudo permissions... ), but not to trigger the operation itself.
my2c al On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 12:37:26 PM UTC+1, Alfredo De Luca wrote: > > Hi all. > I am configuring Puppet in our environment for configuration > management. Also I am using Hiera and it's so great so far. > Now managers are asking if we can use it as patch mgmt tool. I said > Puppet it's not but it can help with patch/pkg distribution which I > think it could be very good. > Do you agree on that? > Any more info/thoughts would be appreciated. > > Regards > > > -- > Alfredo > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/c6307d1b-fa76-4b97-a46d-ed50a0c24bcc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
