[Gllug] managing a large number of debian boxes

[Martin A. Brooks]

Hi Bruce,

On Monday, June 7, 2004, Bruce Richardson wrote:

>> It can be used to drive Debian's own. It's trivial, for example, to
>> tell an abitrary group of machines to install/uninstall/reinstall a
>> single or group of packages.

> It's not a huge amount of work but it's not trivial.  There is no
> package related mechanism at all, so you have to come up with your own
> mechanism and first distribute it and then schedule it.

Managing packages is just, albeit important, part of running a large
number of boxes.  There's very very little you can't do with cfengine,
I've found it to be a It Just Works[tm] solution for large scale
management.

Regards


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