[clue] deploy, configure, & manage

Fri May 24 13:05:18 MDT 2013

You might check out Katello as well if you haven't already. We have the
full blown RHEL Satellite where I work so I have only used it on small
projects but I really like it.

James Mills

jmills at knowtown.com

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> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:44:09 -0600
> From: "Warren W. Weiss" <warren at guano.org>
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> On Thu, 23 May 2013 11:38:34 -0700 (PDT), "Mark G. Harvey"
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> > Got a Sys Admin question: ?I'm looking for recommendations /
> > suggestions to?deploy, configure, & manage?a couple dozen CentOS
> > machines across Development, Staging, Production environments.?
>
>
> I've used Puppet combined with Spacewalk...and Nagios for monitoring if
> you like that kind of pain.
>
> I plan to add JobScheduler to the mix.
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> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 13:56:53 -0800
> From: adam bultman <adamb at glaven.org>
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> Ditto re: puppet and spacewalk.  I love it.   I make my own kickstart
> scripts, which adds the system to spacewalk, adds the puppet packages,
> and then puppet does the rest for me.
>
> For my VMs, < 20 minutes from the time I type in 'linux text ks=....',
> I'll have a fully functioning server - serving data, that is.  I did
> four web servers like this in the past couple of months.
>
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> On 05/23/2013 01:44 PM, Warren W. Weiss wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 May 2013 11:38:34 -0700 (PDT), "Mark G. Harvey"
> > <markgharvey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Got a Sys Admin question: ?I'm looking for recommendations /
> >> suggestions to?deploy, configure, & manage?a couple dozen CentOS
> >> machines across Development, Staging, Production environments.?
> >
> > I've used Puppet combined with Spacewalk...and Nagios for monitoring if
> > you like that kind of pain.
> >
> > I plan to add JobScheduler to the mix.
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> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:13:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Mark G. Harvey" <markgharvey at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [clue] deploy, configure, & manage
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> Jim,?
>
> Thanks for the reply. ?
>
> OpenStack ... for sure have heard of it. ?I'd have to bounce it off the
> customer & the prime contractor to see if it would fly. ?Kind of doubt it
> since the contractor is building their PaaS / SaaS solution on Could
> Foundry (VMware hypervisor), a competing cloud project. ?
>
> Some of the software has been selected, but regarding management of the
> CentOS VMs, there is still more vetting out to find the right solution.?
>
> Mark
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> >Have you looked at OpenStack?? Or is that not appropriate for the diverse
> set of machines/services you'll run on these machines?
> >
> >--
> Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
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> On 5/23/13 12:38 PM, Mark G. Harvey wrote:
> >
> >CLUE folks,?
> >>
> >>
> >>Got a Sys Admin question: ?I'm looking for recommendations / suggestions
> to?deploy, configure, & manage?a couple dozen CentOS machines across
> Development, Staging, Production environments.?
> >>
> >>
> >>I plan to build a template with all the common components & apps such as
> monitoring agents (eg. Tripwire), vFabric tc (tomcat), etc. ?Then capture a
> kickstart file to automate deployment to a second machine ... but this seem
> like one at a time deployment process. ?
> >>
> >>
> >>Looking for tools to modify & deploy stuff like repo settings, packages,
> scripts, accounts, passwords, networking, etc. ?I'm sure you know the
> drill. ?
> >>
> >>
> >>I've heard of the following tools ... but don't know which is a good
> fit, if any. ?
> >>      * cfengine
> >>
> >>      * puppet
> >>
> >>      * chef
> >>
> >>      * spacewalk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>I'm sure there are very experienced folks on this message distribution
> list who have suggestions & gotchas that should be considered. ?Appreciate
> the help. ?TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Mark
> >>
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