Well, one thing I use is puppet to do configuration management. It's a learning curve, but you can ensure essential packages are installed, services are running and properly configured, and so forth.
Something I have been wanting to try, but haven't had time to mess with is Foreman. That bridges the gap between bare metal/blank VM and the point when you can hand the host off to puppet. On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm getting ready to rebuild a small cluster (4 nodes, xen virtualization) > that I'm using to support a combination of hosted services (mostly email > lists, a few web sites) and some experimentation. > > To date, I've installed stuff manually, relied on a high-availability stack > (drbd, crm) to provide failover when things go south, and some > logwatch/alert scripts for monitoring everything. This time around, I'm > thinking about automating some of the install, configuration management, and > monitoring work. > > Which leads me to wonder: Those of you who run server farms on Debian, what > are you using for: > - initial o/s install and configuration (e.g., FAI, other things?) > - software install/update/configuration (chef, puppet, ?) > - virtual machine management > - user management (control panels, ...) > - overall management (nagios, webmin, ...) > > I'm sort of trying to get sense of what people actually use, and in what > combinations, rather than what's got the buzz this week. > > Thanks for anything you might share. > > Miles Fidelman > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50d863fd.6050...@meetinghouse.net > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cakmzw+bjdsysvxavqza5rxfncpru8ha6swfmcwhrmetb1+8...@mail.gmail.com
