[Spacewalk-list] Few Questions before deploying SpaceWalk to Prod

[Sean Johnson]

> I was planning to Clone CentOS 6 "Updates & EPEL repo and skip Base
> repo. Will those 2 be good enough for basic system packages  ?

You need the Base channel. The Updates channel only has updates. So, any 
package that hasn't been updated will expect to be pulled from the Base 
channel instead of the Updates channel. Also, when a new point release 
comes out, that's when the Base channel gets updated.

Personally I stay far away from putting EPEL directly into a production 
environment. If EPEL packages are needed, I put them into a custom 
channel, and deploy them that way. Depending on your tolerance for 
breakage, your results may vary.

> We have different minor version distinction in distributions. Like
> CentOS 6.5, CentOS 6.7, are there any considerations that needs to be 
> taken
> ?

Just that the upstream Base channel gets updated when a new point 
release comes out. So, if you want to maintain your own CentOS 6.5 Base 
channel, for instance, be sure to keep that clone around. The same goes 
with the Updates channel. You'll want to clone the Updates channel to 
match up with the version of the Base channel.

> Is HA important ?

That completely depends on your needs. I don't think Spacewalk can 
function as an HA service without some serious kludges. If availability 
is important, you might want to stand up one or more Spacewalk Proxy 
systems, and point your systems to those instead of directly at the 
Spacewalk server. That way if the Spacewalk server is offline for a 
while, anything cached by the Spacewalk Proxy will still be available to 
clients.


On 25 Apr 2016, at 2:44, Zeal Vora wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have set of around 200 servers and we are planning to use SpaceWalk 
> for
> Patch Management.
>
> Most of the Servers are based on CentOS 6 and I had few questions 
> before I
> can actually setup for Production environment.
>
> i) I was planning to Clone CentOS 6 "Updates & EPEL repo and skip Base
> repo. Will those 2 be good enough for basic system packages  ?
>
> ii) We have different minor version distinction in distributions. Like
> CentOS 6.5, CentOS 6.7, are there any considerations that needs to be 
> taken
> ?
>
> iii) Is HA important ? We plan for weekly snapshots of the Server 
> which
> suffice our requirement as it won't be used on daily basis. If 
> anything
> happens, we can restore the snapshot.
>
>
> Any help will be appreciated!
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