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How to offer (automated) updates with custom managed hosting?
Hi,
we offer custom managed hosting infrastructures for bigger client projects. Every project is custom made. A typical simple project would be two MySQL servers with master-master replication and 2-4 frontend servers with nginx/php-fpm -- everything behind a loadbalancer. Usually the OS is Ubuntu and the servers are managed with Puppet.
Currently we do a manual patchmanagement (basically apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade) every few weeks but we'd like to automate this more since every update takes several hours per project.
We are looking into unattended-upgrades, Ubuntu landscape, Spacewalk/Satellite, Pulp, automated puppetruns...
Important challenges would be to minimize downtimes during upgrading and sending email notifications before and after applying the updates. It would be nice to have a webinterface available for the client where the updates are scheduled automatically but the client can manually postpone/reschedule the updates or select single packages to exempt from the updates.
What are currently best practices to do this? What other commercial/open source tools are available to achieve this? How do other managed hosting providers patch their systems?
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If you want this simple & dare to automate the installations then simply make a bash scrip with mail function first then your update commands then mail function again to notify update completion. And then run that script in crontab.