[CentOS] anyone doing automatic yum updates via yum-updatesd on production servers?

[William Hooper]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> I would always say it is "best practice" to manually install updates on
> at least one machine of a specific type and make sure everything is OK
> ... then automatically machines that are like that one after you are happy.

I would like to expand on this a little.  Once you get a certain
number of machine it probably makes sense to have your own internal
mirror.  That way you can update your test machines from upstream, do
the tests, then once you are satisfied you can update the internal
mirror.  This would give you consistency on what is installed on your
Production machines without having to worry about the whole "crap, I
just updated the wrong server".  Also this would give you a level of
protection if you do choose to automatically update your Production
machines because it takes the extra step of updating the local mirror
to really push any changes.

-- 
William Hooper