Re: Managing hundreds of debian servers

[Bernd Schuhmacher <bernd@schuhmacher-net.de>]

Hi
grover mitchell schrieb:
> Greetings list,
>
> I am curious what other sysadmins use to manage hundreds of debian
> servers, more specifically,  how do you control the
> upgrade/installation of packages. I am familiar with cfengine, but we
> currently use debian packages to deploy all our current conf files.
> Some considerations would be;
>
>  only deploying to specific servers at specific time ( to avoid all
> web server being down, for example)
>
>  being able to roll back if there was a problem in the code or
> package
>
>  the ability to deploy a new package at any given time
>
> I do like the idea of using a pull based solution, rather than a push
> based solution, but I do see situations where immediate releases need
> to be done.
>
> Any ideas or links to current resources?
Maybe m23 (http://m23.sourceforge.net/) is the thing you are looking 
for. I never used it myself but studied the manual a while ago. It 
looked quit promising to me.


Best regards

Bernd




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