{"id":172,"date":"2008-04-22T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattwork.potsdam.edu\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2013-05-14T21:01:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:01:47","slug":"levanta-intrepid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/levanta-intrepid\/","title":{"rendered":"Levanta Intrepid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<strong>NOTE: <\/strong>This was written a while ago]<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>UPDATE: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lnxpowered.org\/2008\/03\/31\/ends-and-beginnings\/\">Levanta is toast<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linuxcare\">LinuxCare<\/a>? That ambitious start-up back-in-the-day that wanted to revolutionize Linux support? Yeah, they died. But from the ashes rose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levanta.com\/\">Levanta<\/a>. Unlike LinuxCare, Levanta has been studiously working on making proprietary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levanta.com\/products\/index.shtml\">products <\/a>to help Linux environments self-support.<\/p>\n<p>While unable to bake one personally (they&#8217;d love to ship one with a PO in hand and then take it back if I don&#8217;t like it), I did get a dog-and-pony show with a sales rep and an engineer that was quite impressive. Complete birth-to-death lifecycle management of server deployments (metal or virtual) using PXE and installing OS&#8217;s on systems automagically, managing update deployments, etc. etc. etc. Basically anything you can do with RPM (updates, installs, rollbacks, etc. etc.) and TripWire (change detection\/management) in a box, on a larger-scale, with a nice GUI.<\/p>\n<p>The product was impressive, but as usual, I wasn&#8217;t impressed with the required coinage.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty quickly I developed some proof-of-concept soft systems that provided 75% of the non-GUI functionality using true NetBoots instead of the PXE-install-based methods the Intrepid uses. I also found a lot of other tools available including <a href=\"http:\/\/cobbler.et.redhat.com\/\">Cobbler<\/a> that could help make a low-cost, high-value system of similar stature fairly easily. When thinking about virtualization, other tools such as <a href=\"http:\/\/ovirt.org\/index.html\">oVirt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virt-manager.et.redhat.com\/\">Virt-Manager<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/xenman.sourceforge.net\/\">Con-Virt<\/a> could certainly be leveraged to provide and in-house solution to the TLM dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have the ambition or skills to glue together your own, the Levanta Intrepid is by far a best-of-breed appliance for total-lifecycle-management of your RPM-based Linux server deployments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[NOTE: This was written a while ago] [UPDATE: Levanta is toast]. Remember LinuxCare? That ambitious start-up back-in-the-day that wanted to revolutionize Linux support? Yeah, they died. But from the ashes rose Levanta. Unlike LinuxCare, Levanta has been studiously working on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/levanta-intrepid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxy","category-opinions","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewgkeller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}