On Monday, April 13, 2009 at 2:23:06 PM UTC-4, thierry.th...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > Reading the doc I could not find if Puppet could help running system > updates. >
Help, yes. But I'd advise against trying to do them directly in puppet. > I would like to get started with several VMWare guests and few hosts, > all running CentOS. Some are 32bits, some 64bits. These are mostly > VMWare server installations; just starting ESXi with one system. They > are running different apps/configurations. > > Of course there are few issues with: > > 1- VMWare tools that want to be sometimes recompiled on Linux. There > is a trick to avoid the recompilation: > > http://vmetc.com/2008/08/31/automating-vmware-tools-installs-and-upgrades-in-linux-guests/ > > but maybe this could be taken care of with Puppet? > Switch to open-vm-tools. It's what VMWare reccomends now, and should be provided by your distro. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2073803 > 2- VMWare server on the host sometimes does not restart after a kernel > update. It also need to be recompiled. Of course the VM Guests are > down. > > 3- The host kernel updates might require reboot, shutting down guests. > I have a script for doing updates that I deploy via puppet, and schedule, via puppet. But the script is a bash script that grabs the time/date of the current kernel (well, the modification time of /boot, which is more aggressive), runs the yum update, and compares the new modification time of /boot. If they're different, it reboots. You can then set the guests to autostart at boot time-- or autostart puppet at boot time, if you're using that to manage guests. -- 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/15a39c8a-fb17-4c4d-aad6-19f74cde1795%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
