up2date and Fedora? 1

[Yrrk]

If you manage a large number (say 30+) of Fedora servers and need them to all remain at the same code levels, whats the best way to approach this?

It's clear to me that having 30+ machines reach out to the internet for updates is a waste of bandwidth. There must be a way to have a single server download the updates, then the rest of them update from that single server. I've never done this so I have basically two questions..

1. is it possible?
2. whats it called? i.e. point me to where i can read up on how to setup such an architecture and get a functional model.

I am familiar with kickstart already but haven't read anything that would allow me to do the above.

Ideally one could roll out updates in stages. Say I have 30+ servers and want to run the latest updates on a subset of servers first, before pushing it out enterprise-wide.

Thanks very much!

 

[ericbrunson]

I use yum and nfs mount /var/cache/yum among my servers.

 

[axman505]

I would recommend creating a local fedora repository, and then setting your other machines to use yum to update off that repository.

I wrote up some docs on it here:

http://www.tuxdocs.net/index.php?show=yum