Re: [gentoo-server] Best practices in managing large server groups

[Nicolas MASSE <nicolas27.masse@laposte.net>]

Quoting Charles Duffy <cduffy@spamcop.net>:

> [Apologies if this is a duplicate post; I tried posting this through
> GMANE yesterday without subscribing first, and it appears not to have
> gone through; likewise when I posted several hours ago today from a
> different address than the one I subscribed].
>
> All,
>
> I'm looking at replacing SuSE SLES9 with Gentoo for an enterprise
> application (for reasons of flexibility and licensing) (no, we don't
> have an enterprise application budget -- just the reliability
> requirements; yaaay, startups!). We're looking to be able to deploy and
> manage hundreds of geographically distributed servers.
>
> We have a QA department available to vet each configuration before it is
> deployed to the field. We have infrastructure for tracking the progress
> of code in svn from creation though QA to deployment; I'm anticipating
> tracking a local overlay (containing all packages we use), make.conf,
> /etc/portage/*, etc. through this system, autobuilding system images
> (either to run virtualized or on real hardware) from the contents of
> svn, building binary packages and deploying them to real hardware.
>
> I'm interested in best practices, suggested tools, and/or 3rd party
> experiences in this regard.

I have absolutely no experience with this, but during one of my  
training courses, I found the following document :
  - http://www.fernhilltec.com.au/~adrian/kara/kara.html

Maybe, it could give some ideas...

Nicolas.


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