I was pocking around for `orbit` documentations but i couldn

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I was pocking around for `orbit` documentations but i couldn t find keeping osquery updated started to be a pain and i wanted to test `orbit` which is really promising is there any doc that get me started how can i make the source of binaries to be internal rpm repo because not all machines will reach out to internet so i would need to host orbit and osquery packages internally and install orbit for the first time and keep it in sync with the internal repo for any new packages

Noah Talerman · Answer

Hey < Ahmed> here s a link to the Orbit Usage and Packaging documentation The Fleet team is currently in the midst of reorganizing the documentation files including the Orbit documentation Apologies for the inconvenience

Ahmed · Answer

Nothing to apologies for Noah you guys doing a fantastic job already Thanks

Ahmed · Answer

is it expected that `orbit` download a package that you need to install i tested with this command which generated an osquery package ```sudo orbit package type rpm osqueryd channel edge fleet url <https fleet internal com 443> enroll secret $ cat etc osquery osquery enroll secret fleet certificate= etc osquery fleet cert pem flagfile= etc osquery osquery flags``` output ```2021 06 29T11 42 08 04 00 INF wrote package path=orbit osquery 0 0 2 x86 64 rpm``` is there a way that orbit install that package because we using puppet already to deploy osquery package updates deploying orbit onetime using puppet and orbit keeping the osquery package updated is the intended workflow right or i m missing something

zwass · Answer

Yes that is the intended workflow

Ahmed · Answer

you mean it generate the rpm to be deployed by other means or it can install the osquery directly without the need to do that because above it generated a package which i should deploy myself

zwass · Answer

You install the Orbit package probably the same way you ve previously been installing the osquery package and once you ve done that Orbit takes care of updating osquery and Orbit

Ahmed · Answer

can you share a doc that describes how that is done because as i shared above i just got a package as output and didnot find an option to install it Thank you so much

zwass · Answer

I m not sure I understand the request The Orbit packager generates a package in the native format for each supported OS ` pkg` ` msi` ` rpm` ` deb` When the package is installed all of the files and services are configured for Orbit to run and update itself along with osquery