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

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:18:45AM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> 
> On 10/13/21 11:07, Julien Cigar wrote:
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> > I'm using Saltstack with https://github.com/silenius/jails-formula
> 
> Thanks, I'll look into it.
> From the short description I think it doesn't suit my needs, but I'll look
> better.
> 

(I'm the author of the formula)

The formula currently doesn't support zfs clones-like and/or send/recv 
jails (it currently fetches everything).

> 
> 
> > What's wrong with installing a minion in each jail?
> 
> Overhead, mainly.
> Having a lot of Salt process running consumes memory (which might be scarce
> in older systems).

That's true, although a salt-minion process consumes only ~60MB. Unless
you have many many jails or older system with less RAM I would say
that memory usage is not an issue.

> More packages to install/maintain/upgrade.

You can handle this with an orchestration script or ...

> Etc...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > There is salt-ssh too if you don't want to install a minion
> 
> Might be better, although I guess it would need enabling SSH in every jail
> (which is something I don't normally do).
> I'll look into it anyway.
> 
> 
> 
>  bye & Thanks a lot
> 	Andrea Venturoli
> 

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