Here at Twitter we make extensive use of Puppet. It's great, but we had a hard learning curve and much customization to get it to work the way we wanted to. I'd also recommend Chef, which is like Puppet but includes more tools (like a machine database) out of the box. -j On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote:
Hey folks. just curious what people are using for automating updates to Linux boxes?
Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions similar to that of Red Hat Network?
At work, we use (and built) a tool called 'tingle' (https://github.com/anchor/tingle), which handles it all for us across our internal and managed-for-customers infrastructures.
Personally, I don't run CentOS, but I use unattended-upgrades on my personal herd of Debian machines, which works well enough.
- Matt
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