While it's possible to do stuff like this in Puppet, this isn't really configuration management you're doing; it's systems administration. If your requirement is to have patches installed automatically, I would write a 10 line shell script, and use puppet to install it as a cron job.
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/67134dda-eee9-467b-82b7-1aeac5075085%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
