Linux Centralized Administration

Fri Jan 13 17:42:30 UTC 2012

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Daniel Ankers wrote:

> I looked into Puppet and though I've got it managing parts of our
> infrastructure it seems quite difficult to bolt on to an existing
> setup.  There are also some things that I can't see how to do easily
> with Puppet ("Don't upgrade packages on the live environment until
> we've tested them in staging" being a big one.)

Has anyone mentioned cluster ssh yet?  Depending on your scale, cluster 
ssh and a "really big screen" may be a suitable way to manage N servers 
and do things like apply updates or make identical changes to all at once 
(or in groups).  It also gives you the flexibility to apply commands to 
all or single out a system and do things just in the one window, then to 
back to talking to all.

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