2007/2/13, Daniel van Ham Colchete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello everyone!!!! Here on my company we are going to start deploying Gentoo Linux on our customers. Every server will have the very same installed packages, the very same use flags, very same cflags, only a few configurations will differ. I would like the deployment and maintenance to be done as easily as possible because this project needs to be scalable to more than 100 servers. Although we are going to install only 10 servers in the beginning, my boss says that I should be prepared for this number to grow. Yesterday I found about the SCIRE project that seems to solve my problems easily. But it seems that the project's development is stopped. Unfortunately, I don't know a thing of Phyton, so I can't help. Do anyone know how is the project going? Are we going to have a production usable release? If so, when? It's not like I'm pushing anything, I just want to know if I can count on it or not. Setting the project aside, I'm thinking about developing my own installer to install a catalyst's stage4 and reboot a working Gentoo. After that I'm thinking about using emerge with binary packages to install updates automatically. What do you think? Will it work? Is it possible to rollback an update if something goes wrong?
We're working on womething similar using catalyst [1] to create a custom livecd, quickstart [2] to automate installation of a basic working system from that livecd and puppet (already mentioned in the thread) to automate administration from that point. To solve the problem with incompatible configuration files, everytime
I upgrade anything, a perl script will reconfigure the customers server.
I recommend to use an existing solution (puppet, cfengine, there are other out there) instead of developing a custom tool to keep configuration up to date. Best regards Jose [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ [2] http://agaffney.org/quickstart/
