RE: [Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-24 Thread Byron Pezan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Ohad Levy mailto:ohadl...@gmail.com>> wrote: I can also recommend using frozen repos, with a testing cycle every time you update them... I a while ago I wrote a small web app[1] to collect all versions of all packages across all of your hosts, you might find it

Re: [Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-23 Thread Stefan Schlesinger
On Sep 22, 2010, at 14:06 , Leslie Giles wrote: > I'm working on rolling out Puppet, but I'm stuck and I know somebody has > solved this problem... > > We have an engineering environment of around 200 Centos servers, plus a > production environment of roughly the same size. Currently, when we r

Re: [Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-23 Thread Charles Johnson
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: > I can also recommend using frozen repos, with a testing cycle every time > you update them... > I a while ago I wrote a small web app[1] to collect all versions of all > packages across all of your hosts, you might find it useful to know which

Re: [Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-23 Thread Ohad Levy
I can also recommend using frozen repos, with a testing cycle every time you update them... I a while ago I wrote a small web app[1] to collect all versions of all packages across all of your hosts, you might find it useful to know which package is installed on which server... in anycase, if you fr

Re: [Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-23 Thread Peter Meier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Has anybody else been faced with this problem, and if so, how did you > resolve it? use Spacewalk for patch management. At least at your scale this makes sense. It makes manual repository management a lot easier. cheers pete -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

[Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Leslie Giles wrote: We have an engineering environment of around 200 Centos servers, plus a production environment of roughly the same size. Currently, when we roll out a new server, we do a 'yum update' so the new server has the latest packages; however this means that just

Re: [Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-22 Thread Tony G.
Hi Lezz, Another approach is to maintain your own repos by freezing them over time, e.g. monthly pull the latest packages for your repos and put them as your frozen repo, provide these frozen repos through puppet and once you have validated all the updates in the frozen repos you can relase those

Re: [Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-22 Thread Rob McBroom
On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Leslie Giles wrote: > We have an engineering environment of around 200 Centos servers, plus a > production environment of roughly the same size. Currently, when we roll out > a new server, we do a 'yum update' so the new server has the latest packages; > however thi

[Puppet Users] Need advice on managing large Centos environment

2010-09-22 Thread Leslie Giles
I'm working on rolling out Puppet, but I'm stuck and I know somebody has solved this problem... We have an engineering environment of around 200 Centos servers, plus a production environment of roughly the same size. Currently, when we roll out a new server, we do a 'yum update' so the new server