Book on Kickstart and Yum

O'Reilly and Associates has released a new title on Red Hat systems adminstration: Managing RPM-Based Systems with Kickstart and Yum. It describes how to automate OS installs and updates, so you can have more free time.

Specifically, this book explains how to:

• use Kickstart to automate OS installs and upgrades of RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, and other Red Hat-based distributions
• customize and further automate Kickstart builds
• create custom, internal Yum repos to keep your systems up to date
• wrap Yum in a layer of change control, to limit the risks of automated updates

There is a companion website at http://www.KickstartBook.net/

Managing RPM-Based Systems with Kickstart and Yum (Ethan McCallum)

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513825/