Is anyone using Puppet for RHEL Patch management ?

[Unix SA]

Hello Guys,

want to know if anyone is using puppet to apply patches to RedHat systems ? i would like to understand architecture of it .. how do you guys use it to get patches from RedHat, how do you test and deploy it on prod servers ?

Regards,

DJ

[Dan White]

I am using Puppet on RHEL systems.

I do not use Puppet to patch the servers.  I use Red Hat Network and yum update.  Puppet then fixes config changes that package updates break.

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

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[Pack, Scott]

I’ve found the best way is that instead of using Puppet to perform the updates you develop your own update system and use Puppet to manage it. At the risk of shameless self-promotion, and to save time typing here, I’ve already written this up at: http://serverfault.com/a/411060/3356

Scott

[Jerald Sheets]

Same here... local Yum repo, no external repo, keeping up to date by executing a "yum update" via exec

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[Tim Connors]

Which means you're running with an invalid config for up to 30 minutes
before your services are restarted back with your desired config?

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Dan White wrote:

> I am using Puppet on RHEL systems.
>
> I do not use Puppet to patch the servers. I use Red Hat Network and yum update. Puppet then fixes config changes that package updates break.
>
>
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Unix SA" <d.jo...@gmail.com>
> To: puppet...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:15:19 AM
> Subject: [Puppet Users] Is anyone using Puppet for RHEL Patch management ?
>
>
> Hello Guys,
>
>
> want to know if anyone is using puppet to apply patches to RedHat systems ? i would like to understand architecture of it .. how do you guys use it to get patches from RedHat, how do you test and deploy it on prod servers ?
>
>
> Regards,
> DJ
>
>

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Tim Connors

[Brian Mathis]

Package updates to RHEL systems do not touch config files if they have been changed, so it's rare that a simple update would cause any configuration to become invalid (of course, anything is possible).  And you tested updates and their possible config changes before deployment, right?

❧ Brian Mathis

@orev

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