[Voyage-linux] Automatic Deployment and Configuration

[John Schultz]

Gustin,...

Do you have experience with Chef?

I just installed it on my debian box and the application is not running. Is
there a how-to for complete walkthrough on installing, configuring and
running?

Thanks,
John


On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 17:36, Gustin Johnson <gustin at meganerd.ca> wrote:

> 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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