On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Chris Beattie wrote:
I have a mix of CentOS 5, 6, and now 7 servers at work. There are
enough of them now that it is starting to make sense for them to get
updates from an internal source.
I've seen RHN Satellite in years past. It looks like it may be a
way to allow Windows admins here (familiar with WSUS) to update
Linux boxes. A local repo might be easier to set up, but (as with
Spacewalk) it seems like we'd end up with a lot of packages we don't
need. A proxy and a sufficiently-large cache might do the trick if
the first Linux box to get updates populates the cache which the
files the others will need, but I haven't looked into this enough to
see if there's even a way that works.
How do you all keep a dozen or more Linux boxes updated?
We keep local repos for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu -- plus some
smaller repos like OpenBSD -- on an older machine with a RAID-5 array.
The faster moving distributions are updated a couple time a day, while
CentOS is updated just once per day. Right now, disk usage on that
machine is about 2.5TB.
Debian and Ubuntu have some distro-specific scripts we use (ftpsync
and ubumirror, respectively), while I update CentOS and Fedora with
fairly unremarkable cron jobs. Under the hood, all these tools use
rsync.
All installations and updates are done from the local mirrors; we use
cfengine to make sure the /etc/yum.repos.d/* or /etc/apt/* files point
to the right spot.
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Paul Heinlein
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