Puppet users - Jun 2013 - Extending Puppet for network device management

Hello,
I have started using puppet recently and my primary purpose is to use 
puppet to maintain state of a bunch of network devices, I have explored the 
basics of configuring switch interfaces using puppet, I feel there 
is necessity to extend it to do more complex jobs on network devices. I 
have tried finding ways to do several other jobs on switch using puppet but 
could not find much. If any one could point me some links which may help me 
explore all the implemented things for network management then it would be 
a great help aslo I''m looking forward to write new ruby modules to help
myself and publish them if the work is significant. So thinking of 
extending puppets where should I start? any specific docs which I can refer?

Your response is valuable and appreciated.

Thanks for your time,
Vatsa

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On 06/07/2013 06:40 AM, srivatsa rao wrote:
> Hello,
> I have started using puppet recently and my primary purpose is to use
> puppet to maintain state of a bunch of network devices, I have explored
> the basics of configuring switch interfaces using puppet, I feel there
> is necessity to extend it to do more complex jobs on network devices. I
> have tried finding ways to do several other jobs on switch using puppet
> but could not find much. If any one could point me some links which may
> help me explore all the implemented things for network management then
> it would be a great help aslo I''m looking forward to write new
ruby
> modules to help myself and publish them if the work is significant. So
> thinking of extending puppets where should I start? any specific docs
> which I can refer?
I think you should probably write your own custom types. Take a look at 
F5 modules.


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Thanks a lot for the response!

Is there any developer guide or something similar which I can follow to 
know internal working of puppet in detail? so that I can go to right places 
and test/add modules.
Any material in this direction will be very helpful to me.

Thanks,
Vatsa

On Friday, 7 June 2013 11:05:53 UTC-7, Jakov Sosic
wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2013 06:40 AM, srivatsa rao wrote: 
> > Hello, 
> > I have started using puppet recently and my primary purpose is to use 
> > puppet to maintain state of a bunch of network devices, I have
explored
> > the basics of configuring switch interfaces using puppet, I feel there
> > is necessity to extend it to do more complex jobs on network devices.
I
> > have tried finding ways to do several other jobs on switch using
puppet
> > but could not find much. If any one could point me some links which
may
> > help me explore all the implemented things for network management then
> > it would be a great help aslo I''m looking forward to write
new ruby
> > modules to help myself and publish them if the work is significant. So
> > thinking of extending puppets where should I start? any specific docs 
> > which I can refer? 
>
> I think you should probably write your own custom types. Take a look at 
> F5 modules. 
>
>
> -- 
> Jakov Sosic 
> www.srce.unizg.hr 
>
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> Is there any developer guide or something similar which I can follow to 
> know internal working of puppet in detail? so that I can go to right places
> and test/add modules.
> Any material in this direction will be very helpful to me.
>
Vatsa,  

There are a couple of puppetlabs documents on creating custom types:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_types.html
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/complete_resource_example.html

as well as books (haven''t read these, so can''t vouch
personally):
- Puppet Types and Providers
- Pro Puppet (this covers lots of puppet topics)

Though arguably most helpful will be looking at existing puppet types and 
providers:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/master/lib/puppet/type
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/master/lib/puppet/provider
and various modules on forge.puppetlabs.com

Eric

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Thanks a lot for the pointer :)

Means a lot to me thanks :)


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:10 AM, <badgerea@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any developer guide or something similar which I can follow to
>> know internal working of puppet in detail? so that I can go to right
places
>> and test/add modules.
>> Any material in this direction will be very helpful to me.
>>
>
> Vatsa,
>
> There are a couple of puppetlabs documents on creating custom types:
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_types.html
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/complete_resource_example.html
>
> as well as books (haven''t read these, so can''t vouch
personally):
> - Puppet Types and Providers
> - Pro Puppet (this covers lots of puppet topics)
>
> Though arguably most helpful will be looking at existing puppet types and
> providers:
> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/master/lib/puppet/type
> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/master/lib/puppet/provider
> and various modules on forge.puppetlabs.com
>
> Eric
>
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