[wplug] Starting From Scratch

[Paul Armor]

On Redhat-like distros, kickstart's the distro's included poison... it's 
possible to do some interesting things with it.  We use it for our ~25 
general computing machines, and two clusters (one w/ 300 compute nodes, 
one with 780 compute nodes).  We tie this in with managing configs in CVS, 
and have a cloning machine mount, cp -r checked out CVS of configs, 
reboot; crude but it works...  I'm trying to find the time to use 
something like cfengine to take care of the last bits (and pushing 
subsequent updates to cvs).

We also use yum to handle updating packages, and manage the flow of what 
we want updated in our own mirror of the distro's official updates.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Paul



On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Michael H. Semcheski wrote:

>> 
>> * installation/administration: disk cloning, "official" updates, a set of
>> scripts doing automatic targeted patches.
>> 
>
> Lots of great ideas in that message, Florin.
>
> Anybody have any specific recommendations on how to accomplish these types
> of things?  They are definitely things I think I'd be able to implement, but
> it could take some time to get it right.