On Sep 14, 4:00 am, David Schmitt <da...@dasz.at> wrote:
> Chris Blumentritt wrote:
> > The spirit of puppet is to install via the package resource. You could
> > write a shell script to install using a text file as a data source then
> > use the exec resource using onlyif to check to see if you need to run
> > it. What I would do is create a separate class in its own manifest file
> > and do some fancy searching and replacing (matching beginnings and
> > endings of lines) with your list of packages. Since you have so many
> > packages I doubt the resource will be more than one line. End up with
> > something like:
>
> > package { "package_name": ensure => installed }
>
> > You might run into trouble here if you are using different distros of
> > linux or linux and freebsd as the package names may be different. You
> > would get the benefit of later being able to hit the file and change
> > installed to latest if you want update a specific package though.
>
> > I have never heard of a file being used as a source for a resource but
> > it is an interesting thought. You might get away with an inline
> > template to do that but that would be dirty:
>
> > package { inline_template("<%= filename.each_line.collect %>"):
> > require => File["filename"],
> > ensure => installed
> > }
>
> No need to make it so complicated:
>
> | $packages = split("\n", file("/etc/puppet/packagelist"))
> | packages { $packages: ensure => latest }
Hi Cris,
Do you think it a good idea to use puppet to maintain servers up2date?
Or it's better to use some kind of cron scripts?
We're planning to use puppet for this task, but we've found a lot of
packages, dependencies, priorities, essential, no essential so it's a
little bit complicated to split packages regarding categories and
setup puppet for doing this. Another thing we're looking for is how to
manage packages belonging daemon services in production with puppet.
I'd like to know at what level we can use puppet to keep systems
up2date. I appreciate if you share some experiences.
:-)
thanks
regards,
Israel.
>
> Please be aware though, that this will lead puppet to query the package
> manager for every package, one by one, which may be quite the
> performance hit.
>
> Alternatively only specify the differences from the basic installed
> system and use something like apt-dater to keep your servers up to date.
>
> Regards, DavidS
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