The Golden Depot

I've presented the Golden Depot at the HP Technology Forum in 2007. Sincere thanks to all who have attended.

Abstract

The Golden Depot: A rational method for installing your HP-UX servers and keeping them up to date

Session Abstract: This breakout session will show a technique that helps installing HP-UX systems quickly, and keeping them up to date, using a technique called the "Golden Depot". A Golden Depot is similar in spirit to a Golden Image but it is contained in a Software Distributor depot instead of an archive, which makes it easier to maintain and update over time. Relying on custom-made packages and a few tools inspired from the open source world that will be presented to the attendees, the Golden Depot is a unique reference depot to which all servers synchronize their patches, software, and especially site-specific customizations.

Learning Objectives: There are tremendous time savings and enhanced server consistency that can be achieved by using a Golden Depot. This presentation will show a method that fully harnesses the power of SD depots to help attendees install and manage their systems.

Copy of the presentation

Grab it here: 1108_masse.pdf

Tools

All my tools are published here under a BSD license. The presentation itself will be available on DVDs at the conference, and I will post it here afterwards if I can legally do so.

compare_golden.pl.txt		Compares your system with a reference depot
make_package.sh		Simplifies the creation of SD-UX packages
gold_crontab.sh		Lets you distribute common crontab entries easily
gold_kctune.sh		Lets you distribute minimal kernel values easily