[chef] Re: Managing Updates to Chef Server and Client

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014, Somers-Harris, David | David | OPS wrote:

> I would like to manage updates to Chef Server and clients using RPM 
> package management for CentOS servers. I see that the current way to do 
> updates is to run the ctrl command for Chef Server and run a shell 
> script (or manually install the rpm yourself) for chef-client.
>
> Is there an RPM repository we can just point to get updates to Chef for?
> It would make detecting Security patches and updates so much easier.

Yes, we're getting there -- the server products & their add-ons are now 
hosted on Packagecloud: https://packagecloud.io/chef/stable (and you can 
read on their website how to set up apt or yum repo files for your use)

The client pipeline is being migrated early in the New Year at which point 
the client RPMs will be there too.

- Julian

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