[148359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Centralized Administration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Graydon)
Thu Jan 12 20:56:32 2012
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:55:35 -1000
From: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 01/12/2012 03:51 PM, chaim.rieger@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
>
.. you never update? How frequently do you rebuild your entire server
stack, weekly?
Paul
