[Voyage-linux] Automatic Deployment and Configuration

[Gustin Johnson]

It sounds like chef or puppet are exactly the sort of thing you are
looking for.  Why re-invent the wheel unnecessarily?

Chef:
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home

Puppet:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet

2011/9/1 John Schultz <jschultz0614 at gmail.com>:
> Martin,.. I have been looking for this kind of feature ever since I started
> working with Voyage. The easiest way would be to develop a web based
> interface that contains all the settings, save this in a central repo., and
> then have the nodes check in every X minutes, if there is a change, then
> apply the changes and based on what change, do a system reboot if necessary.
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 09:26, Martin Kos <martin at kos.li> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> i have the need to deploy a lot of alix boards with voyage linux running
>> on them. the have a "common" configuration, but still each alix has it's
>> own settings.
>> one thing is the inital configuration of the alix, but then when they
>> are deployed and i want to make changes to the configurations, that
>> should be automated and scalable. the problem is that not all of the
>> boxes are reachable from outside, so they need to have some "call home"
>> feature.
>> i have thought about using puppet for this purpose? but haven't checked
>> the details yet.
>> one idea was to make some kind of dual boot system, where one system is
>> a "read only, never change" system that can make the inital installation
>> of the seconde "real" system, and that will "always" work. which means
>> that in case of any damage to the real system, the other system can
>> boot, download the whole real system and configure it. so also upgrades
>> to newer version of voyage linux etc would be possible, or just "reset"
>> the system to the inital state.
>> what do you think about this ideas? anybody tried something simliar?
>>
>> greets
>>  KoS
>>
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