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Re: Linux Centralized Administration
From: Paul Graydon <paul () paulgraydon co uk>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:55:35 -1000
On 01/12/2012 03:51 PM, chaim.rieger () gmail com wrote:
.. you never update? How frequently do you rebuild your entire server stack, weekly?On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart<paul () paulstewart org> wrote:this is why i never update. i would rather build a new image and deploy it to the thousands of servers than worry about updates. be it an openssh security notice, or new ntp configuration, for me it is easier to rebuild servers than update config files.Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just anexample but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutionssimilar to that of Red Hat Network?Something to think about before attempting to centrally manage, your systems actually have to be centrally manageable -- that doesn't happen automatically and requires extra work.
Paul
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- Re: Linux Centralized Administration John Adams (Jan 12)
- Re: Linux Centralized Administration Jimmy Hess (Jan 12)
- Re: Linux Centralized Administration chaim.rieger () gmail com (Jan 12)
- Re: Linux Centralized Administration Paul Graydon (Jan 12)
- Re: Linux Centralized Administration Paul Graydon (Jan 12)
- Re: Linux Centralized Administration Daniel Ankers (Jan 13)
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- Re: Linux Centralized Administration Nickola Kolev (Jan 13)
- Re: Linux Centralized Administration chaim.rieger () gmail com (Jan 12)