puppet: how to submit command "yum update" to all agents?

Question

I'm new to puppet and trying to create manifest which will request all agents to update all currently installed yum packages.

What should be the best way to describe this in manifest?

Solution

Well, it's super-easy with Puppet Enterprise and MCollective...

But in your case, you're probably going to have to produce a manifest that runs an exec of /usr/bin/yum -y -q update.

You can also just create a puppet cron resource to do this on a more sane schedule...

Comments

[sciurus]

So every time Puppet runs (normally every 30 minutes), you want to update all installed packages?

[DmitrySemenov]

I find a best way, but I don't have enterprise.

[faker]

are you sure about MCollective? I think the package agent only allows update on a single package, not all.

[dawud]

The Marionette Collective package agent can't do that yet, but there are agents for mco out there that could do this, see shellout for an example.

[ewwhite]

You can run arbitrary command via mco with the right plugins.