Re: Upgrading thousands of boxes via APT
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Ben wrote:
> > > I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
> > > managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
> > > recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the
> > > others sync off of that. Perhaps that is the only reliable approach, but
> >
> > I'll answer that with, why would someone in your position not want to
> > do that?
>
> I am not sure to which you direction you are referring. Why would
i. Thousands of machines updating from repositories.
ii. Thousands of machines updating from one/some local mirror(s).
> On a server farm of identical machines using system images works
> pretty well. Tools like SystemImager, FAI, Mondo, etc. are great.
Where did system imaging come into this?
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