Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:43 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:

to date, I've done all my administration on a manual 1 at a time basis, as each system has been pretty much unique.

its looking like I might need to setup a deployment of a dozen or 2 basically identical machines, all running pretty much the same sorts of stuff.  I have zero experience with the sorts of management tools folks use to automate this type of configuration, both initial setup, and ongoing management (system updates, user application updates, configuration changes, etc).

Redhat satellite can handle it. Too bad I don't know if there is foss alternative for it.