[148358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Centralized Administration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chaim.rieger@gmail.com)
Thu Jan 12 20:53:00 2012
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:51:58 -0800
From: "chaim.rieger@gmail.com" <chaim.rieger@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUire4e=kj+h1p-oHWnJFJeLh3dQyCorMZEFN+hEXkK7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart<paul@paulstewart.org> wrote:
>
>> Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an
>> example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions
>> similar to that of Red Hat Network?
>>
> Something to think about before attempting to centrally manage, your
> systems actually have to be centrally manageable -- that doesn't happen
> automatically and requires extra work.
>
>
this is why i never update. i would rather build a new image and deploy
it to the thousands of servers than worry about updates. be it an
openssh security notice, or new ntp configuration, for me it is easier
to rebuild servers than update config files.
