On 15/02/13 22:12, Jens Skott wrote:
Heyas. Im currently working on a deploymentflow using RHEL6 with
satellite as repo to deploy new machines.
Since we build alot of inhouse applications for our systems we package
using RPM and send them to a channel in the satellite.
I have worked out a scrip that syncs the whole channel and/or child
channels, but since our application channel consists of more then just
one application I can´t automate it.
If I clone our test channel (with all the packages in it), some
untested packages might be synced to our staging channel.
Since i havnt found a way to call the satellite using API to just move
one package i have to do it manually and it takes alot of time from my
daily work.
Have anyone had any experience with this type of problem before? Or
should i just create more channels? We have around 50 different
systems (one channel for each then) with about 5-10 packages for each
system.
Jens Skott
Tel: +46-8-5142 4396
Schibsted Centralen IT
With all the respect to Redhat's satellite server (and the Spacewalk
community project), I think it is too much overhead for the number of
systems. What I tend to do for setups of this size is to make a
traditional software repository. Get an NFS or HTTP server, ACL it so
that it is secure and layout the structure of your RPM repositories.
Then insert these repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d, write your cronjobs
and you are done.
An alternative option is yum localinstall. If you NFS import a directory
that contains the tree of your RPMs and layout the directory structure
so each client can run a yum localinstall on a specific/per client dir
with the relevant RPMs, that should also do the trick. Quoting the yum
manual page:
localupdate
Is used to update the system by specifying local rpm
files. Only the specified rpm files of which an older version is already
installed will be
installed, the remaining specified packages will be
ignored. If required the enabled repositories will be used to resolve
dependencies. Note
that the update command will do a local install, if given
a filename.
I used both of these approaches on IT setups of up to 150
servers/workstations with tools like:
http://code.google.com/p/floep/
OR
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/
to handle a large number of systems with one SSH command and it did the
trick. That is not to say that RH Satellite is not nice. In my mind,
simpler command line commodity setups are preferable over user friendly
enterprise/nice GUI approaches.
GM
Best regards,
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