Re: best software for managing multiple freebsd & linux machines ?

> Op 11 okt. 2021, om 20:54 heeft Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> het volgende geschreven:
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> Also, a thing I planned on asking since a long time: how do you manage jails?
> Of course I don't want to install a minion into each... did you find a way to target a jail directly in some way or are you just issuing specific jail commands to base?
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> bye & Thanks
> 	av.
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I actually did install minions in every jail (17!). For me the choice was easy: either perform a ‘pkg -j <jail-id> upgrade’ 17 times, or “salt ‘*’ pkg.upgrade” once (yeah, I’m lazy :) ). The latter command also updates the linux boxes and the raspberry pi’s.

And this is only one of the advantages. I have several directories getting updates from git, and performing a “highstate” will automatically update those directories.

But of course you pay the price in used memory and CPU cycles. 

Peter

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