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2007/2/13, Daniel van Ham Colchete <daniel.colchete@×××××.com>: |
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> Hello everyone!!!! |
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> Here on my company we are going to start deploying Gentoo Linux on our |
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> customers. Every server will have the very same installed packages, |
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> the very same use flags, very same cflags, only a few configurations |
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> will differ. |
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> I would like the deployment and maintenance to be done as easily as |
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> possible because this project needs to be scalable to more than 100 |
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> servers. Although we are going to install only 10 servers in the |
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> beginning, my boss says that I should be prepared for this number to |
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> grow. |
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> Yesterday I found about the SCIRE project that seems to solve my |
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> problems easily. But it seems that the project's development is |
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> stopped. Unfortunately, I don't know a thing of Phyton, so I can't |
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> help. Do anyone know how is the project going? Are we going to have a |
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> production usable release? If so, when? It's not like I'm pushing |
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> anything, I just want to know if I can count on it or not. |
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> Setting the project aside, I'm thinking about developing my own |
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> installer to install a catalyst's stage4 and reboot a working Gentoo. |
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> After that I'm thinking about using emerge with binary packages to |
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> install updates automatically. What do you think? Will it work? Is it |
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> possible to rollback an update if something goes wrong? |
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We're working on womething similar using catalyst [1] to create a custom |
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livecd, quickstart [2] to automate installation of a basic working system |
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from that livecd and puppet (already mentioned in the thread) to automate |
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administration from that point. |
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To solve the problem with incompatible configuration files, everytime |
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> I upgrade anything, a perl script will reconfigure the customers |
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> server. |
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I recommend to use an existing solution (puppet, cfengine, there are other |
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out there) instead of developing a custom tool to keep configuration up to |
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date. |
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Best regards |
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Jose |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ |
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[2] http://agaffney.org/quickstart/ |
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