On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Giovanni Bordello wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm very new to Puppet and perhaps what I'm trying to do is a trivial thing.
> No so much for me though..
>
> I use Puppet 2.6 to manage a bunch of CentOS 5 servers. A handful of web
> servers, a handful of app-tier servers and a couple of other hosts - ldap,
> mail, etc.
>
> I've got a CentOS 5.5 repo on the Puppet/Kickstart server and install
> everything from there, obviously a slightly different package sets for each
> type of server.
>
> Now the question: can I use Puppet to fetch all the latest updates from the
> updates repo? I know how to configure the yum repo with Puppet but don't know
> how to trigger the update?
>
> Ideally something like:
> ensure => no-more-package-updates-available
> should do the trick :)
Will make sure a package is installed:
package { "mysql-server":
ensure => present
}
Will make sure a package is always up to date with the package database. (Or
depending on the provider, this might be the locally cached version of the
package database):
package { "mysql-server":
ensure => latest
}
#Note: this may cause a large load on your package mirror if the provider
checks if the package is up to date on each run. A local caching proxy or
mirror is recommended.
If you want to make sure that all installed packages, you need something like
this:
#Treat this is pesudo-code because I haven't used Yum for a very long time
exec { "/usr/sbin/yum --yes update":
#Using something to make this not run on every run is useful. At the
least, once per day should be enough.
}
#Again: this may cause a large load on your package mirror if the provider
checks if the package is up to date on each run. A local caching proxy or
mirror is recommended.
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