John Summerfied wrote:
William Hooper wrote:
Gerald wrote:
I have an environment with 40 servers. Whats the best way to roll out O/S and software upgrades with these requirements?
1. systems lack internet access. 2. would prefer that generally all systems maintain the same O/S and software levels.
Both would be taken care of by using a local yum repo.
My personal favourite (and this assumes that the box with Internet access has good Internet access) is to configure an Apache virtual host, maybe redhat.example.com, that proxies a convenient external mirror.
But you have no way of controlling what updates are released, so it doesn't meet the third requirement.
the third requirement was not "what updates are released" but rather "to which servers."
That's addressed by being selective in where one performs the updates.
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