[Pulp-list] Automatic Updates

[Todd B Sanders]

On 12/22/2010 11:02 AM, Jay Dobies wrote:
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> On 12/21/2010 05:51 PM, Todd B Sanders wrote:
>> Beginning to think about Automatic Updates....
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>> https://fedorahosted.org/pulp/wiki/AutomaticUpdates
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>> Comments Please....
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>> -Todd
> I like option 2. I think having it driven by the pulp APIs makes sense
> given the rest of the functionality pulp provides.
I agree.  Of course this doesn't limit the ability for the customer to 
configure some of their managed systems (i.e. dev environments) directly 
via their configuration management solution.  Just means that Pulp will 
ignore it.
> The more of this type of stuff we add the more I'm starting to want an
> alert subsystem in place. It'd be really slick if we had a good
> infrastructure to set up notifications if a consumer update/repo
> sync/cds sync failed. There are a ton of places we could go with it, but
> I'm off topic from this original email.
>
> "# We would not recommend configuring automatic updates on the client
> (above) and configuring a maintenance window on a client "
>
> I'm not sure I follow. The two seem to go hand in hand to me; we'd want
> to say "automatically update the client during its window." Or are you
> saying its effectively duplicate functionality that we don't want in
> play at the same time?

Correct.  Thinking that if you want to go through the trouble of setting 
up a controlling maintenance window, you should not configure automatic 
updates via client config, but rather let Pulp handle installing those 
updates within the window in a coordinated fashion to distribute load.  
Not to say you can't do both, but seems to be at odds with one another.

-Todd
> "# For consumer groups, we need to stagger these operations to ensure
> that we don't create a demand spike on the server. "
>
> +1. We may even want to enhance the views on maintenance windows to be
> able to show something like "X% of your consumers all share the same
> maintenance window, you may want to rethink that."
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