Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
What kind of hardware is this that's connected to the servers, and what does the software do that you can't test before installing on production servers? On 6 August 2016 at 02:14, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > All real servers, with custom hardware attached, geographically > distributed across the

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-05 Thread Elazar Leibovich
All real servers, with custom hardware attached, geographically distributed across the planet. Real people actually use the hardware attached to this computers, and it's not obvious to test whether or not it failed. The strategy therefor is, deploy randomly to small percentage of the machines, wa

Re: Gradual installation of debian packages

2016-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
What provisioning tools do you use to manage these servers? Please tell me you aren't doing all of this manually. Also what's your environment? All hardware servers? Any virtualisation involved? Cloud servers? Reading your question it feels like you are setting yourself up to fail instead of minim