Automate VPS deployment solution?

Jupiter

Was wondering which are the best Debian/Ubuntu solution to script automated installations via scripting language and templates.

Some kind of framework above Kickstart ,,, or something like declarative puppet labs enterprise ...

BradND

Ansible

charlie

Cfengine?

aglodek

1. Set up and configure model VM (or many model VM's) using OS/OS's of your choice.

2. Install same OS on target VM or VM's.

3. Clone model to target VM/VM's using a 1-line rsync command.

4. Reboot target VM/VM's. Voila!

Works under KVM and OpenVZ both, but best under OpenVZ as there is no need to modify anything (hostnames, IP's) on the target system(s) - OpenVZ conveniently takes care of everything (i.e. overwrites stuff) after reboot

Disclaimer: may not work for some applications - Aegir CP for one, needs additional tweaking, but that's about it.

prae5

Puppet/Chief

craigb

Ansible. If you're looking to setup a personal "cloud" or just automate install of some internet services, check out Sovereign - a set of ansible playbooks that do most of the heavy lifting: https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

concerto49

aglodek said: Clone model to target VM/VM's using a 1-line rsync command.

Have you accounted for when rsync fails?

aglodek

@concerto49 said: Have you accounted for when rsync fails?

Ran this numerous times with one failure only. Then re-ran the command and was done. I'm no sysadmin, but rsync seems to be pretty redundant-like This said, for commercial and mission critical applications, maybe encapsule this in a bash script - to run AND monitor rsync execution..?