deployment/scripting/automation

kevinyeandel · 02-07-2009, 05:24 PM

Hi

I'm building a deployment bundle of a server and want to automate some tasks.

e.g. openvpn has a dependency on lzo, so there is a sequence to building all this stuff.

So, Package lzo, requires
./configure
make
make install

How do I script up:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

function do_package
{
if (configure == successful) then
  if (make == successful) then
    if (make install == successful) then return true;
    fi 
  fi
fi
return false
}

cd $PACKAGE_LZO
if (do_package == true)
{
  cd $PACKAGE_OPENVPN 
  if (do_package == true) then .........
}

I also scanned the forum and saw something about Kickstart.. any suggestions? All my servers will be centos5 clones and I can't use a xen/image.

Many thanks for any tips and advice.

Kevin]

raskin · 02-08-2009, 12:28 PM

Well, are you sure you cannot just install openvpn from distribution repository? In the simple case like you are describing you should have a reason not to install your software via "yum install".

kevinyeandel · 02-09-2009, 12:38 AM

To a greater degree that would solve many problems. Seems that not all packages are yum installable. I'd like to have the answer up my sleeve anyhow.

However, one thing comes to mind is that I want my distribution/configuration all sourced from the exact same tarballs for 'sanity' reasons. I guess yum has some config options for pulling down exact versions (shall have to look into that).

Most of the stuff is successfully going over via rsync from a main server.

Kevin

raskin · 02-09-2009, 12:51 AM

I am very tempted now.. If you want sanity with exact same sources etc, try Nix ( http://nixos.org ).