On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:12 PM, ELTigre <igalva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 14, 1:56 pm, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch> wrote: > > Hi > > > > > I'd like to know at what level we can use puppet to keep systems > > > up2date. I appreciate if you share some experiences. > > > :-) > > > Hi Pete, > Thanks for your soon answer, We've always updated packages of > principal services manually and other packages not so important > automatically using some cron jobs. BUT, puppet comes to play and we > have a lot of servers running in production environment. That's the > reason why I'm asking the list. The updating process is complicated > because you have to manually do the dirty job. We thought puppet can > handle this servers's update job. But I see it's not a good idea. > > Does anyone in the list use puppet to handle updates on servers? :-) > We have execs of apt-get update/upgrade that we run as part of our Puppet runs. > > regards, > Israel. > > we don't use puppet at all to keep systems up2date and I don't think > > it's a good idea either. Your package manager usually does a much better > > job. To manage bigger installations something like satellite or even an > > own managed package repository, which you sync with the upstream updates > > you need and then run a cron only against that repository might be a > > suitable solution. > > > > cheers pete > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
