similar to: Kickstarting several *different* setups

On 01/20/2015 08:41 AM, Tom Grace wrote: > I would suggest that the "right way" would be to kickstart all your > machines the same way, and then use a configuration management tool > (like Puppet or Chef) to customize them Seconded. Personally, I recommend either ansible or bcfg2 over other tools. Puppet has a larger user base, but when I talk to users at conferences (such

I am a little new to managing large numbers of CentOS/RHEL servers and was wondering what you experienced sysadmins prefer, Spacewalk or Puppet? Thanks, Dan Burkland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091103/de975d32/attachment-0004.html>

I'm currently using kickstart for installing new servers and have run into the following scenario: all the machines will have the same basic setup of packages, however they will each be configured for a specific task. For example, some will be mail-serving machines and won't need things like a web or mySQL server installed. Others will be web servers and do need those packages. So my

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would suggest that the "right way" would be to kickstart all your >> machines the same way, and then use a configuration management tool >> (like Puppet or Chef) to customize them > > > Seconded. > > Personally, I recommend either ansible or bcfg2 over

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > But, if someone ever gets cross-platform config management right or at > least close enough that it is worth learning yet another description > language I'd be very interested. ?Cfengine v3 might be getting there but > the windows version seems to be only available in the commercial build. OK,

Hello Everyone I'm looking into the best way to have locked version repos for my CentOS systems. The systems are all set up with Chef and have a couple different recopies/roles. I'd like to have locked version repos for each role with tested RPMs. Then perhaps quarterly apply any updates. It would be nice to have something showing which updates are available for these locked repos.

Hi, we see a growing need for a better Configuration management for our servers. Are there any known good resources for a comparison of e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc? What would you suggest and why? :) Thanks and Regards . G?tz

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Tom Grace <lists-in at deathbycomputers.co.uk> wrote: > On 20/01/2015 16:29, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >> >> So my question is, is there some way do determine via kickstart, what to >> install on that machine based on some criteria, possibly the IP that's >> being assigned to it, or MAC address, or something ... > > If

On 20/01/2015 16:29, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > So my question is, is there some way do determine via kickstart, what to > install on that machine based on some criteria, possibly the IP that's > being assigned to it, or MAC address, or something ... If you just want to use kickstart, it would be pretty simple to serve these via HTTP, and have a simple script in PHP or similar that

Tom: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into those tools. Mark: Yes, they are using pxeboot. Right now when they boot up, the pxe config offers two options, 32- and 64bit. Are you suggesting I create multiple entries that one selects based on what the machine is going to be? Is there a way to have this done automatically so I don't have to physically have to do that for each machine,

Hi, I would like to contribute a howto page about the configuration of Spacewalk for package management under CentOS 5. Spacewalk is the upstream project for the source of RedHat Network Satellite. It provides a management interface for software updates across registered servers and desktops. Here is were I would like to put this page: <http://www.redhat.com/red_hat_network/>

It would be hard to use ansible, cfengine or whatever while there no IP address on the new VM..... On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:47 AM, <cpolish at surewest.net> wrote: > On 2016-11-07 14:35, Bernard Fay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have a virtual environment based on XenServer. In this environment I > > defined a template for CentOS 7 servers. > > > > I

Dear List, I'm trying to set up a lab with multiple workstations running CentOS 5. Does anybody knows how to keep the packages in sync among workstations? Ideally I want any change made on any machine be able to applied to all other machines. Alternatively, to "push" the changes (add and/or remove packages) from one central server to all other machine is also fine. Thanks

Hey folks, A week or two ago someone mentioned something about using their own home-grown RPMs for managing config info on their boxes. I really like this idea and would like to learn more about it. Are there some examples out there? I have lots of custom config info and think this would be an ideal way to manage it. Others mentioned puppet and CF engine which probably have their merits as

Hey guys, I tend to work on small production environments for a large enterprise. Never more than 15 web servers for most sites. But most are only 3 to 5 web servers. Depends on the needs of the client.I actually like to install Apache and PHP from source and by hand. Although I know that's considered sacrilege in some shops. I do this because on RH flavored systems like CentOS the

hello list, I've been asked to give someone sudo rights across an entire environment without the benefit of something like puppet or chef or cfengine et al. What I've come up with so far is this: ssh -t miaprbicsra04v sudo -S /bin/echo "rsherman ALL=\(ALL\) NOPASSWD: /sbin/service /bin/rm /usr/bin/du /bin/df" >> sudo tee /etc/sudoers Right now that's just to one

On 12/05/16 10:21, James Hogarth wrote: > On 12 May 2016 at 08:22, G?tz Reinicke - IT Koordinator < > goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> we see a growing need for a better Configuration management for our >> servers. >> >> Are there any known good resources for a comparison of e.g. Puppet, >> Chef, Ansible etc?

Good morning/day and Happy New Year. We have a geographically distributed environment (marketing speak: cloud) where we regularly need to migrate individual systems to new hardware (for bigger disks or for better geographical placement, for example). We currently use Cobbler to do our base installs automatically and I am now looking at integrating Clonezilla with Cobbler. The goal is take an

> Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user > auth? I am currently testing LDAP (openldap) combined with nss_ldap, configured with authconfig. I would start by testing IPA. Redhat is building out a set of enterprise management tools which include cobbler and spacewalk; I would think IPA will eventually be integrated into their mgt tools. That said, if

Am 08.11.2016 um 16:47 schrieb cpolish at surewest.net: > On 2016-11-07 14:35, Bernard Fay wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have a virtual environment based on XenServer. In this environment I >> defined a template for CentOS 7 servers. >> >> I would like to start a script a boot time to complete the configuration of >> new VMs based on this template. How can I