[Tech] updates, etc. ... remotely? Why not? :-)

[Michael Paoli]

Well, there are various ways to do updates, support, etc.
remotely.  Maybe we ought work bit more on that, so we can
save on resources making trips to/from sites that would
be better skipped if/when feasible.

Ideally we'd have some means to access the host(s) directly
from remote ... but even that's not (fully) necessary.
If the hosts have so much as some semi-reasonable
Internet access (e.g. hosts can connect out - even
egad, "worst case" if it's limited to http and/or https,
and even through a proxy if proxy supports the http
Connect capability) ... so, ... it *can* be done.

There are various possible ways ... "reverse" ssh is one
that jumps to mind, but there are others ... let me peek
again and see about another I'm thinking of, but can't
recall the name of (and came well recommended from an
excellent source).


references/excerpts (and pardons if I don't have all the
quoting/attributions properly lined up):

> From: "Tai Kedzierski" <dch.tai at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tech] Partimus & Raspberry Pi 3 Model Bs
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:26:37 +0100

> Just in the updating: i would have thought some automation would have
> already been done.
>
> There is a ubuntu package for auto updates

> On 26 Sep 2016 03:29, "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 5:34 PM, <jesse at boldandbusted.com> wrote:
>
>> * How do we keep them up-to-date?
>
> I manually go to each location and update them.  This is actually a bit of
> an issue, give that we are at 6 locations with 12 machines.