[ale] enterprise rhel/centos management

[Derek Carter]

On 8/11/10 10:50 AM, Joey Rutledge wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> A co-worker and I are currently in the process of trying to determine the best method to manage a handful of RHEL 5 based systems.  We are looking at deploying over time at least 100 or more RHEL systems and are trying to determine the best method to manage security updates,  package versions, entitlements, etc.
>
> So far we have come up with the following
>
> RHN
> Redhat Satellite
> Spacewalk
> in-house yum repository
>

If money is an issue and you have admin experience, you can get pretty 
far by using Cobbler[1] combined with Puppet[2].  Cobbler does your 
installs/kickstarts, and puppet manages your server configs.

I managed approx 100 boxen with Cobbler+Puppet at a previous job. They 
included Debian, Centos, and RHEL.

[1]https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
[2]http://www.puppetlabs.com/
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Derek