Puppet users - Nov 2007 - new to puppet - can puppet push its content to remote servers?

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Hi,

I was made aware of puppet a few weeks ago and I really like the way
things are working.

What I liked at cfengine was the capability to push content from the
central server to any node. There was no need to open a port from DMZ or
any other remote system to the central server.

Is there a similar way within puppet?
How is this solved by other users of puppet?

At the moment we are having the following system setup:

- - internal fai/puppet master (Debian etch)
- - some internal systems (Debian etch, CentOS 4, RH ES 4, OS X 10.4+10.5)
- - some DMZ-based systems (Debian etch, CentOS 4, RH ES4)
- - some remote servers at partners (RH ES 4, Debian etch)

Kind regards,

Martin

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On 11/13/2007 3:02 AM, Martin Alfke wrote:
> What I liked at cfengine was the capability to push content from the
> central server to any node. There was no need to open a port from DMZ or
> any other remote system to the central server.
> 
> Is there a similar way within puppet?
> How is this solved by other users of puppet?
Within puppet, puppetrun. Never used it myself. I use dsh from the 
puppetmaster. Others have mentioned remctl and mussh.

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

There''s a new project called ''func'' that does what
mussh, remctl,
capistrano, etc all do, execute remote ''things''.
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/func/
It''s written in python (YMMV) and very new, but aims to be simpler to
setup
and very modular.

<competative tool analysis over>

Unless I misread something puppetrun will enable you to run puppet on a
remote machine but in general that means you are still communicating back
with the puppetmaster to get your compiled configs (or check if they are
recompiled)

I think what most people that don''t want a pull master concept will do
is
use something like mussh, dsh etc to run the puppet standalone client with a
manifest file (from somewhere)

C

On 11/13/07, Mike Renfro <renfro@tntech.edu>
wrote:
>
> On 11/13/2007 3:02 AM, Martin Alfke wrote:
>
> > What I liked at cfengine was the capability to push content from the
> > central server to any node. There was no need to open a port from DMZ
or
> > any other remote system to the central server.
> >
> > Is there a similar way within puppet?
> > How is this solved by other users of puppet?
>
> Within puppet, puppetrun. Never used it myself. I use dsh from the
> puppetmaster. Others have mentioned remctl and mussh.
>
> --
> Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
> 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University
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