Re: [gentoo-server] anyone deploy Gentoo as production servers

[Christian Affolter]

Hi!

> just want to know abou this.
> does anyone use gentoo as production servers, like mail, dns, mysql,
> web,ntp ,etc..
Yes, our whole infrastructure is based on gentoo (firewall, mail, dns, 
mysql, ldap, filer, backup etc.). Furthermore our setup is based on 
linux vserver [1], which is an awesome project! This gives use great 
flexibility and helps us to securely chain the different services with a 
relative small amount of hardware.

> and how about cfengine server?
I'm not using it, but as far as I know there's a gentoo ebuild as well 
as a portage integration for it. I think the gentoo core infrastructure 
team is using cfengine.

As soon as the shadow chroot patch [2] from GLEP 27 [3] is implemented, 
we will be able to build striped down gentoo instances without any 
development dependencies (with the help of the emerge ROOT environment 
variable) in a sane and easy way.

After that, I would like to implement a combination of radmind [4] and 
subversion for our gentoo infrastructure.


If you're interested in gentoo (or any other OS/distribution) on 
production server and you're going to manage more than 5-10 machines, 
then you should think about building an "infrastructure" [5]. An 
important part of your infrastructure, especially on a gentoo based one, 
would be a build server or "gold server" which builds and provides 
packages for your different end servers. Also consider to use a 
versioning system at least for your config files.

Last but not least I really recommend you to have a test environment ;)


hope this helps.


regards,
Chris


[1] http://linux-vserver.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml
[2] 
http://soc.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/glep0027/patches/shadow-4.0.16-chroot.patch?rev=48&view=markup
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0027.html
[4] http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/
[5] http://www.infrastructures.org/
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