[CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

[Baird, Josh]

Puppet isn't really a "package distribution server," although it can be
used to maintain packages on several systems.. and is an AWESOME tool
for other things like configuration management.  A decent size shop
would require more than just Puppet for package management/deployment,
though.

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Zhihao Lou
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:26 AM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

After some reading and testing, I decide to use puppet. It's really  
nice. I'll recommend it to others.

Thank you all

Zhihao Lou


On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Gary Greene wrote:

> On 6/3/10 8:27 PM, "Zhihao Lou" <lzh1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a lab with multiple workstations running CentOS
>> 5. Does anybody knows how to keep the packages in sync among
>> workstations? Ideally I want any change made on any machine be able  
>> to
>> applied to all other machines. Alternatively, to "push" the changes
>> (add and/or remove packages) from one central server to all other
>> machine is also fine.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Zhihao Lou
>>
>> P.S.: Sorry for the confusion subject line. I really don't know  
>> what's
>> the accurate name for the feature I described here.
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>
> My recommendation is use a configuration management system like puppet
> (http://www.puppetlabs.com/) or slack (http://code.google.com/p/ 
> slack/)
> using a role that runs yum with the change list needed for the  
> machines in
> the field. This gets you the ability to have uniform configurations  
> and
> "push" from a central server.
>
>
> -- 
> Gary L. Greene, Jr.
> IT Operations
> Minerva Networks, Inc.
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