Zinst
Install
- How to install the zinst client
curl -sL bit.ly/online-install |bash
zinst self-config ip=[IP address of the zinst-repository] host=[Hostname of zinst-repository]:[http_port]
- check the server alive
zinst find
- You can clone and copy the open-source zinst packages from the Github to the Volume dircetory as below.
What is the Zinst ?
zinst?
- Package install manager. It very similar that concept of yinst command in Yahoo!
Summary
- For the centralized package manage & distributed systems
- Centralized control:
- Install the Package to the destination server
- ex) zinst install apache_server-1.0.1.zinst apache_conf-1.0.1.zinst -h web0[1-7,9]
- list-up the package in each server
- list-up the file of package in each server
- ex) zinst ls -files apache_server
- Easy find out the installed package-name of a some distributed file
- ex) zinst ls -files /data/z/httpd/conf/include/_temp.conf
- Can tracking the release history with who could controlled
- Easy can change the configuration setup
- ex) zinst set apache_conf.maxclient=64
- Then you can see the configuration has been changed on the Apache server for example.
- Package remove
- Send a command to the distributed systems
- ex) zinst ssh "whoami" -h web[0-1][0-9], web20
- Can makes a list of multiple host for the target control
- ex) zinst ssh "whoami" -H ./hostlist.txt
- One package, can makes a differnt output
- Daemon controll
- ex) zinst start httpd
- Then we can recognize that who managed the daemon in the server as a history
- Easy to find out the package has been released to somewhere
- *ex) zinst track hwconfig-1.
- Supported a package restore & roll-back as a save file
- ex) zinst restore -file /data/z/save/zinst-save.56
- Without difficult language and environment. Due to it made by Bash only
