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Quoting Charles Duffy <cduffy@×××××××.net>: |
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> [Apologies if this is a duplicate post; I tried posting this through |
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> GMANE yesterday without subscribing first, and it appears not to have |
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> gone through; likewise when I posted several hours ago today from a |
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> different address than the one I subscribed]. |
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> All, |
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> I'm looking at replacing SuSE SLES9 with Gentoo for an enterprise |
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> application (for reasons of flexibility and licensing) (no, we don't |
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> have an enterprise application budget -- just the reliability |
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> requirements; yaaay, startups!). We're looking to be able to deploy and |
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> manage hundreds of geographically distributed servers. |
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> We have a QA department available to vet each configuration before it is |
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> deployed to the field. We have infrastructure for tracking the progress |
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> of code in svn from creation though QA to deployment; I'm anticipating |
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> tracking a local overlay (containing all packages we use), make.conf, |
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> /etc/portage/*, etc. through this system, autobuilding system images |
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> (either to run virtualized or on real hardware) from the contents of |
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> svn, building binary packages and deploying them to real hardware. |
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> I'm interested in best practices, suggested tools, and/or 3rd party |
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> experiences in this regard. |
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I have absolutely no experience with this, but during one of my |
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training courses, I found the following document : |
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- http://www.fernhilltec.com.au/~adrian/kara/kara.html |
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Maybe, it could give some ideas... |
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Nicolas. |
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