On 4/26/2016 3:27 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
I like to use the latest, stable versions of apache and php for my clients without having to create a custom RPM every time a new version comes out. So what I'd like to know is it better in your opinion to install from repos than to install by source as a best practice? Is it always better to use puppet, chef, ansible etc even if the environment is small? I'm sure this is a matter preference, but I would like to know what your preferences are.
I would setup your own private yum repo, with RPMs built from source, ideally built to run in /opt/yourstuff or /usr/local or something, as you prefer, so they don't collide with any system packages.. once you've got the rpm build down, unless there's major architectural changes in the package, it shouldn't take more than fetching the latest tarball and run your rpm build script, then test it on a staging platform, when it meets your requirements, post it on your repo, and have your sites update via yum...
I've never gotten into the puppet/chef/etc stuff cuz every one of the 35 servers and VMs in the development lab at work is a different custom configuration, so I config them by hand, its not that much work in my environment. For CentOS VMs, I generally install from the minimal ISO, then copypasta a few yum commands to get all my favorite tools onboard, and past that its a custom configuration of this java plus that database server and whatall user accounts this app environment needs, doesn't take a half hour to build a new system this way, and I don't have to build them that often (maybe a couple a month at most?).
-- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
