Spacewalk
Introduction
Section titled “Introduction”Spacewalk is a great open source project which delivers a Linux systems management solution. According to the project’s wiki page, here’s what Spacewalk allows you to do:
- Inventory your systems (hardware and software information)
- Install and update software on your systems
- Collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups
- Provision (Kickstart) your systems
- Manage and deploy configuration files to your systems
- Provision virtual guests
- Start/stop/configure virtual guests
As you it can be seen from the above list, patch management is only a small subset of features available in Spacewalk and it trully is a very versatile tool.
As our homelab grows, manual patch management can become a bit of a nightmare. This is where Spacewalk really comes in handy, making it possible to patch your entire environment in a matter of minutes, at the same time ensuring that all operating systems are patched to the same baseline.
Requirements
Section titled “Requirements”Installation
Section titled “Installation”This installation guide assumes that we use Centos 7 to install our Spacewalk server.
First of all, we will need to install the spacewalk-repo package
rpm -Uvh http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.5/RHEL/7/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-2.5-3.el7.noarch.rpmHow to manage your systems with Spacewalk
Section titled “How to manage your systems with Spacewalk”TBC
External Links
Section titled “External Links”Here’s some links related to Spacewalk
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Spacewalk Wiki | Good place to start - Spacewalk Wiki |
| Homelab blogpost Title B | This is a great article about Microservers |
| Homelab blogpost Title C | This article shows you step by step how to blah |
External Links