Re: management tools?
Well, one thing I use is puppet to do configuration management. It's a
learning curve, but you can ensure essential packages are installed,
services are running and properly configured, and so forth.
Something I have been wanting to try, but haven't had time to mess
with is Foreman. That bridges the gap between bare metal/blank VM and
the point when you can hand the host off to puppet.
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm getting ready to rebuild a small cluster (4 nodes, xen virtualization)
> that I'm using to support a combination of hosted services (mostly email
> lists, a few web sites) and some experimentation.
>
> To date, I've installed stuff manually, relied on a high-availability stack
> (drbd, crm) to provide failover when things go south, and some
> logwatch/alert scripts for monitoring everything. This time around, I'm
> thinking about automating some of the install, configuration management, and
> monitoring work.
>
> Which leads me to wonder: Those of you who run server farms on Debian, what
> are you using for:
> - initial o/s install and configuration (e.g., FAI, other things?)
> - software install/update/configuration (chef, puppet, ?)
> - virtual machine management
> - user management (control panels, ...)
> - overall management (nagios, webmin, ...)
>
> I'm sort of trying to get sense of what people actually use, and in what
> combinations, rather than what's got the buzz this week.
>
> Thanks for anything you might share.
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
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