Re: Keeping hosts updated

Tomislav Skunca <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:18:43 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 16:12, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:32 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jaco <[email protected]> >
>> multiple VM & baremetal systems (local & remote) for my setups; most
>> of them
>> > are Ubuntu, with a few Debian & BSD's in the mix.
>> >
>> > One of my pet peeves is keeping them updated.
>>
>> Two approaches work for me :-
>>
>> For a collection of Debian-like machines, 'apt-dater'
>> http://www.ibh.de/apt-dater/ does an excellent job, combine that with
>> a regular apt-get --download-only & notification and you're sorted
>> well.
> centos also offers yum-updatesd which will keep you up to date
> automagically if you trust them.
>
> However, the question also needs to be expanded to keeping $CMS updated
> as well in a lot of cases. I find that most of the big ones have
> extensions that at least tell you that you need to update...
>
> hth,
>
> Steve

You can try Puppet (http://www.puppetlabs.com/). There is a FOSS and a
commercial version with extra features.

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