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On Friday 13 October 2006 15:16, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> I was reading the thread on the lightweight gentoo system. This to a |
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> degree meshed with what a friend and I have been talking about. |
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> Essentially setting up a standard image for all of my gentoo servers, |
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> and stage 4ing (is that a word?) that image to the servers. Once they |
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> are in production, building updates etc in a dedicated build environment |
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> and simply rolling out binaries to the boxes as they are needed. |
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> The concept sounds really good, giving me the ability to do (relatively) |
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> fast updates with binaries on the production servers, after they have |
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> been through testing, with out tying up resouces, and (more importantly) |
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> being able to fully test them prior to putting them into production. |
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> If anyone has done this type of thing, or has references, links, |
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> pointers etc I would REALLY appreciate them. |
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I haven't done any stage4 stuff so no clue about how to do that. I only know |
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that it's possible. But for the rest of it [1] should give you a hint... |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4 |
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Bo Andresen |
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