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Hi! |
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> just want to know abou this. |
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> does anyone use gentoo as production servers, like mail, dns, mysql, |
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> web,ntp ,etc.. |
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Yes, our whole infrastructure is based on gentoo (firewall, mail, dns, |
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mysql, ldap, filer, backup etc.). Furthermore our setup is based on |
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linux vserver [1], which is an awesome project! This gives use great |
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flexibility and helps us to securely chain the different services with a |
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relative small amount of hardware. |
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> and how about cfengine server? |
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I'm not using it, but as far as I know there's a gentoo ebuild as well |
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as a portage integration for it. I think the gentoo core infrastructure |
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team is using cfengine. |
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As soon as the shadow chroot patch [2] from GLEP 27 [3] is implemented, |
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we will be able to build striped down gentoo instances without any |
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development dependencies (with the help of the emerge ROOT environment |
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variable) in a sane and easy way. |
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After that, I would like to implement a combination of radmind [4] and |
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subversion for our gentoo infrastructure. |
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If you're interested in gentoo (or any other OS/distribution) on |
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production server and you're going to manage more than 5-10 machines, |
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then you should think about building an "infrastructure" [5]. An |
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important part of your infrastructure, especially on a gentoo based one, |
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would be a build server or "gold server" which builds and provides |
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packages for your different end servers. Also consider to use a |
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versioning system at least for your config files. |
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Last but not least I really recommend you to have a test environment ;) |
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hope this helps. |
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regards, |
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Chris |
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[1] http://linux-vserver.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml |
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[2] |
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http://soc.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/glep0027/patches/shadow-4.0.16-chroot.patch?rev=48&view=markup |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html |
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[4] http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/ |
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[5] http://www.infrastructures.org/ |
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