[Spacewalk-list] Automation of configuration deployment

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We roll custom rpm's for "final" configuration of the server.  In order to
maintain configurations across unit/intg/perf and production environments,
the RPM's are the easiest way to ensure that the servers get built the same
way.  They also allow for a "one-stop-shop" for installing files,
configuration directives, running scripts and such that need to be before
turning a system over.

I'm sure you could make puppet or cfengine do similarly, I think this final
step is a matter of need and methodology that works best for you.

It might be nice to have a "post" script in the activation key, but I think
that this could get cumbersome to maintain...

Will


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Rick van der Linde <rick at rilp.nl> wrote:

>  Hi all,
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> I;ve managed to setup Spacewalk in suc a manner it allows me to use it for
> deploying different configuration to some level. But to me it's somewhat to
> restricted. Let me first explain what I;ve setup:
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> First of all spacewalk deploys a base level installation of any EL (RHEL,
> CentOS and OEL). this sets up a box with ip configuration but no
> applications. so in fact the installation has no "role" yet.
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> I use activation keys (as you can register the system with multiple
> activation keys). This allows me to setup some activation keys that
> installs several RPMs allowing me to install applications and deploy some
> configuration files by letting the system join the specified configuration
> channels. This allow me to deploy applications en configuration related to
> it with a simple rhnreg_ks command form CLI.
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> The thing I cant do yet is to automate (unless I develop custom RPM's)
> some manual handlings I need to do now: For example add FW rules, activate
> deamons to start automatically and some other things. It would be nice to
> be able to have a script or equiv. executed when a activation key gets
> registered that allows me to arrange this last step of automation.
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> Has anyone else ran into the same issue and got it resolved in some way?
> Or should I raise a feature request.
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> In my opinion this setup allows one to setup en deployment environment
> that is quite generic and allows one to configure (multiple) applications
> (next to platform). For example, dns, dhcp, postgresql, spacewalk, zarafa,
> postfix, juna, eclipse etc.etc. on RHEL.
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> Thanks in advance.
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