[Puppet Users] Re: Patch Automation By Puppet

2017-06-04 Thread John Gelnaw
Having been foolish enough to say "Sure, we can do that" in response to the relatively complicated patch scenario my supervisor wanted us to implement, I can offer advice, if not code-- Our code is heavily dependent on our environment, and probably wouldn't make much sense. It's also fairly h

[Puppet Users] Re: Patch Automation By Puppet

2017-06-01 Thread James Perry
It really depends on the OS and how you want to handle it. Puppet already has the package ( https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/type.html#package) with the option *ensure => latest,* that will keep the package at the most recent patches available in repos defined on the hosts. If you want

[Puppet Users] Re: Patch Automation By Puppet

2017-05-19 Thread Martijn
Hi Mahabubur, We use Puppet to configure Ubuntu's unattended-upgrades package, which takes care of nightly updates for us. Our Puppet only takes care of installing and configuring the package, for example: do we want only security-updates or all updates, who do we email on failure, which packag