Deploying with confidence

Self-Service

Article from Issue 139/2012
Author(s):

Combining Puppet, Foreman, Pulp, Candlepin, and Katello lets you deploy software and servers automatically and securely.

In last month’s column, I talked about finding and remediating security problems; this month, I will continue with administrative automation. Security remediation is great, but at some point, you need the servers to do useful things like run software, process data, and so on. So, how do you efficiently control hundreds or thousands of systems, deploy and distribute software, and make configuration changes as needed? Of course, you can’t just deploy stuff straight to production and hope for the best, so you’ll probably want to support separate development, testing, and production groups at a minimum.

Buy this article as PDF

Express-Checkout as PDF
Price $2.95
(incl. VAT)

Buy Linux Magazine

SINGLE ISSUES
Print Issues
Digital Issues
 
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Print Subs
Digisubs
 
TABLET & SMARTPHONE APPS
Get it on Google Play

US / Canada

Get it on Google Play

UK / Australia

Related content

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

    Red Hat's Satellite system management solution provides an amazing range of capabilities, but it isn't quite ready for orbit.

    more »
  • Puppet Labs MCollective 1.0 Now Available

    “Our partners bring users the operating system, Amazon EC2 and OpenStack, as well as traditional hosted and in-house servers give users a platform to run that operating system, and Puppet with MCollective1.0 gives them ease of use and adds a layer of functionality that greatly improve the productivity of both the platform and the user.” Luke Kanies

    more »
  • Puppet Labs Announces Puppet Enterprise

     

    Puppet Labs, provider of open source systems management solutions, announced the release of Puppet Enterprise, the first commercially supported version of Puppet.

    more »
  • Security Lessons: OpenShift

    OpenShift and other PaaS products can help take some of the work out of deploying and managing systems.

    more »
comments powered by Disqus

Visit Our Shop

Trial Subscription

Digital Subscription

Subscribe

Direct Download

Read full article as PDF:

062-063_kurt.pdf (280.34 kB)

News

Tag Cloud

Administration Community Desktop Events Hardware Linux Linux Pro Magazine Mobile Programming Software Ubuntu Web Development Windows free software open source