After some reading and testing, I decide to use puppet. It's really
nice. I'll recommend it to others.
Thank you all
Zhihao Lou
On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Gary Greene wrote:
> On 6/3/10 8:27 PM, "Zhihao Lou" <lzh1984@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a lab with multiple workstations running CentOS
>> 5. Does anybody knows how to keep the packages in sync among
>> workstations? Ideally I want any change made on any machine be able
>> to
>> applied to all other machines. Alternatively, to "push" the changes
>> (add and/or remove packages) from one central server to all other
>> machine is also fine.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Zhihao Lou
>>
>> P.S.: Sorry for the confusion subject line. I really don't know
>> what's
>> the accurate name for the feature I described here.
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>
> My recommendation is use a configuration management system like puppet
> (http://www.puppetlabs.com/) or slack (http://code.google.com/p/
> slack/)
> using a role that runs yum with the change list needed for the
> machines in
> the field. This gets you the ability to have uniform configurations
> and
> "push" from a central server.
>
>
> --
> Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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> Minerva Networks, Inc.
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