I don't recommend using Puppet for anything to do with patching, even in the distribution of the patches. (Actually, I'm not sure how Puppet would be used to distribute patches even in principle.) Anyhow, sooner or later you're going to want a tool that was actually designed for patch and package management so you'd to save yourself expensive rework, I'd just do it at the outset. You may find that something like MCollective is useful if you need a way to, say, run yum update on a lot of boxes all at once, but that's about it.
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 10:37:26 PM UTC+11, 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/ea7642fe-19de-42cf-bf07-4e7c706bd5a5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
