Re: Keeping hosts updated

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Tomislav Skunca
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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:
>> centos also offers yum-updatesd which will keep you up to date
>> automagically if you trust them.

Agreed, there are many tools for "just blindly update" but I don't
really recommend that approach. Automatically grab the latest updated
list of packages, yes. Download them, probably. But apply them without
a human checking or authorizing? No ...

>> However, the question also needs to be expanded to keeping $CMS updated

Very good point.

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

And back to Puppet -- if you have complex requirements, Puppet will
satisfy them, you may have to do some foundational work but it will
pay off in the long term.

My main use-case for apt-dater is a large number of hosts that belong
to different customers, and while I have responsibility for package
update management, I don't have responsibility for anything else (i.e.
the wider configuration). So Puppet doesn't provide sufficient
benefits in this case; but it will in many others.

-jim

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