[Spacewalk-list] Best practices ?

[Glaser, David]

I guess for that question it really comes down to how you run your business/venture. If you are more bleeding edge, you probably are syncing your spacewalk/Satellite to bring down new packages nightly or weekly. If that's the case, then when you clients connect, they are probably getting the new packages at that time.

In a more conservative environment, you may be syncing only when things change or when there are security updates out for your version, in that case, you can decide when you want to have those updates synced to your servers and thereby show up on your clients. I don't believe that there is a given best practices for every situation since every situation is different.

With either product, you could run test channels and clones so that you could test out every security and errata before deploying it to clients, however that is a lot of overhead. We run our satellite to download packages often and our clients get automatically updated. Very seldom do we see issues with this setup. We are just starting with Spacewalk, so we haven't really decided on an update scheme yet.

Dave


From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Nicolas HAHN
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:00 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Best practices ?


Hi there,

I would like to know what are the best practices you use in your OS deployments using Spacewalk or Rh Satellite.

I mean, when a new version of the OS is out (for exemple Centos 4.5 is out en your systems are using 4.4), do you deploy new version immediately, or do you wait some weeks or months to avoid potential stability problems ?

Also, what are the other Best practices you may use ?

I know this is a generic question

Thanks for your answers.

Best regards,

Niconux


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