Hello all, I'm working with a Kenya-based non-profit (tunapanda.org) that uses OSS to provide computing resources to schools where bandwidth is either nonexistent or prohibitively expensive. We provide a customized Edubuntu/LTSP setup which will host local versions of useful online resources like Kahn Academy (via ka-lite), Wikipedia (via Wikipedia For Schools), etc.
I'm serving as a sort of Linux/tech advisor to them, and am looking into ways to provide updates to configuration files on classroom servers that... - Are not physically accessible to me - Are not online (local reps can download updates to a USB drive and bring it to the server) - Do not have much in the way of local technical expertise, so deployment will need to be fairly straightforward/scriptable I don't have much experience with tools like Puppet, Chef, etc, but after reading through some of the docs, it sounds like Puppet might be able to do exactly what I want. Before I put too much effort into it, I hope I can run my ideas by y'all for a sanity check and ask some questions: 1. If I maintained a master image configured via a set of Puppet manifests, could I just periodically put those manifests online, have someone in Kenya download them to a USB drive, copy them to the server, and run "puppy apply..." on them? 2. If they first backed up the server's previous set of manifests, would they be able to roll back changes in case of a problem? 3. Is there a better approach? Any other suggestions for things (including tools other than Puppet) to look at? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help! --Brad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
