Less work, more security
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
When I started in my company, all our SUSE servers had to be installed and managed manually or by scripts. When SUSE Manager introduced, a lot of daily stuff became easier. The management of our AutoYaST-profiles and thus the automatic installation works like charm. Managing our system regarding updates and having an overview of our level of patching became very easy. Auditing systems when new messages about security leaks are coming in is also a great help for us. The possibilities with Salt to manage and distribute (configuration) files on and to our servers is another great feature to have a uniform and stable environment. All in all, our environment became easier and faster to manage. Especially setting up and managing standards for our servers helped a lot increasng our level of security. And not to forget the saving of a lot of time and the decreasing of headaches and pains in our daily business.
Pros
- automatic installation using AutoYaST
- standard environment
- auditing servers reagrding CVE
- patching the servers
Cons
- making it easier to get individual patches to channels
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great for medium to large environments needing standards. For small companies with only a small number of servers, you can also use the open source components used like cobbler, salt, etc.
