[mdlug] Centralized package management tools

[Michael ORourke]

Very cool!  Thanks for the link.  -Mike

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  From: thomas at redhat.com 
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  Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 8:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [mdlug] Centralized package management tools


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  Look at Spacewalk, it's our community upstream project for Satellite.

  http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/

  Wojtak, Greg wrote:
  > Ah, the holy grail for CentOS/RHEL systems (aside from paying Red Hat
  > $13,000 a year for a satellite server!).
  >
  > I am looking for the same thing (and I'm sure any other Linux Sysadmin
  > is) for years.  I'm still using the strategy of "install updates on dev
  > server, keep the rpm's that were downloaded, move them to test, then
  > production, and pray to God that the same packages are in sync across
  > all environments."
  >
  > Not very efficient.  I've been looking into building a yum server and
  > configuring the yum-updatesd to download the packages that I roll out.
  > A little better than using cron, but not by much.
  >
  > I'd be interested to hear if you find anything.
  >
  > Greg Wojtak
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
  > Of Michael ORourke
  > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:29 AM
  > To: MDLUG's main mailing list
  > Subject: [mdlug] Centralized package management tools
  >
  > Lug nuts,
  >
  > I'm looking for some recommendations, specifically for the CentOS 5.2
  > distribution, for a centralized package management system or tools.
  > I've
  > spent some time doing vaious Google searches, but haven't found what I
  > was
  > looking for aside from basic tools such as 'yum' and 'up2date', which
  > are
  > designed to run on a single host.  I was hoping that I would stumble
  > upon
  > some existing tools that could be leveraged in an existing environment.
  > What I would really like is:
  > * Gui tools (browser based).
  > * Internal centralized server (package repository).
  > * Centralized management (for development, QA, & production).
  > * Ability to schedule updates and manually push updates.
  > * Auditing capabilities (which servers have what packages installed).
  > * Ability to manage servers by group (e.g. Dev App servers).
  >
  > Running 'yum -update' from cron on each server isn't a good strategy,
  > especially when it comes to production systems.  I would like to have
  > the
  > capability to pull down patches to a centralized server, then push the
  > patches/updates to the development/QA environment, and finally out to
  > the
  > production systems after testing is completed.
  > Is that too much to ask for.  :-)
  > Any suggestions/recommendations/ideas?
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Mike
  >
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