Puppet users - Mar 2010 - puppet on os x: definitive setup notes?

i''ve been reading docs and blundering my way through a simple puppet
client/server setup between two test hosts (puppetmasterd on server
10.5.8, puppet client on client 10.6.2) and am wondering if there''s
any current definitive guide for configuring puppet for os x systems.

it also seems the gems installed on my client with ruby 1.9.1 as
default don''t work very well yet. i''m going to try
uninstalling
everything on the client side and reinstall just the ruby 1.8 pkg or
gems, i guess.

i''d really like to get this going but have spent most of my time
wading through the wiki and searching for answers to various errors.
thanks in advance for any tips.

- nate

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On 1/03/10 11:47 AM, foilpan wrote:
> it also seems the gems installed on my client with ruby 1.9.1 as
> default don''t work very well yet. i''m going to try
uninstalling
> everything on the client side and reinstall just the ruby 1.8 pkg or
> gems, i guess.
Puppet doesn''t currently work with Ruby 1.9

I don''t believe there is a definitive guide but there is this wiki
page:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetMacOSX

Please feel free to edit and update.

Regards

James Turnbull

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM, foilpan <foilpan@gmail.com>
wrote:
> i''ve been reading docs and blundering my way through a simple
puppet
> client/server setup between two test hosts (puppetmasterd on server
> 10.5.8, puppet client on client 10.6.2) and am wondering if
there''s
> any current definitive guide for configuring puppet for os x systems.
>
> it also seems the gems installed on my client with ruby 1.9.1 as
> default don''t work very well yet. i''m going to try
uninstalling
> everything on the client side and reinstall just the ruby 1.8 pkg or
> gems, i guess.
Hang on a second... You shouldn''t be doing any reinstalling of
software...

Ruby 1.8 comes with OS X.

Ruby 1.9 is unsupported by Puppet as James said.

I don''t believe you need *any* extra gems on top of a base OS X
install to run puppetmasterd under webrick (the default getting
started scenario)

If you''ve been messing around with your Ruby install, you want to
ensure on 10.5/6 that these symlinks are still there.

nigelk$ ls -lad /usr/lib/ruby /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  76 Feb  2 15:56 /usr/lib/ruby ->
../../System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/Current/usr/lib/ruby
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  47 Feb  2 15:56 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby ->
../../../../../../../../../../Library/Ruby/Site


There are a good number of Ruby installs around for OS X that mess up
these symlinks.


If you really want to just try getting started with Puppet, can I
suggest MacPorts? We have the latest puppet and facter available as
Ports, and it''s a completely self-contained setup, where you can
uninstall the ports once you''re satisfied things work the way you
expect.

We do not have a good getting started guide for running puppetmasterd
on OS X. I''d like to have one :)
>
> i''d really like to get this going but have spent most of my time
> wading through the wiki and searching for answers to various errors.
> thanks in advance for any tips.
>
> - nate
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thanks nigel and james. i''m actually reading notes passed along by
another list member, watching the macworld 2008 presentation from
nigel and jeff, and have the "pulling strings" book here for
reference.

i needed ruby 1.9.1 for a class i took but installed from source
under /usr/local, so all the default ruby 1.8 stuff is completely
separate. macports doesn''t really appeal to me; i''d rather
have source
or pkg installs to deal with.

by "removing software," i meant removing just the 1.9.x specific gems
which were the defaults and sticking with either the 1.8 gems or
nigel''s packaged versions. i''m guessing that will all work.

thanks for the pointers.

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On Mar 1, 2010, at 6:02 PM, foilpan wrote:
> thanks nigel and james. i''m actually reading notes passed along by
> another list member, watching the macworld 2008 presentation from
> nigel and jeff, and have the "pulling strings" book here for
> reference.
> 
> i needed ruby 1.9.1 for a class i took but installed from source
> under /usr/local, so all the default ruby 1.8 stuff is completely
> separate. macports doesn''t really appeal to me; i''d
rather have source
> or pkg installs to deal with.
Actually, Ports is almost the same as using a package install where the packages
take much longer to install.  (If you have a compiler installed)

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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, foilpan <foilpan@gmail.com>
wrote:
> thanks nigel and james. i''m actually reading notes passed along by
> another list member, watching the macworld 2008 presentation from
> nigel and jeff, and have the "pulling strings" book here for
> reference.
>
> i needed ruby 1.9.1 for a class i took but installed from source
> under /usr/local, so all the default ruby 1.8 stuff is completely
> separate. macports doesn''t really appeal to me; i''d
rather have source
> or pkg installs to deal with.
You know MacPorts is a source based package system? To be frank, I
don''t understand the desire to install from source, it''s just
more
stuff you have to track for keeping up to date and secure.

There are a lot of keen Rubyists helping maintain MacPorts versions,
so you get a very recent build, but with patches so that it actually
works better than the vanilla upstream installs.

You might also want to have a look at MacRuby, http://www.macruby.org/
which has some excellent performance characteristics for a 1.9
install.
>
> by "removing software," i meant removing just the 1.9.x specific
gems
> which were the defaults and sticking with either the 1.8 gems or
> nigel''s packaged versions. i''m guessing that will all
work.
>
> thanks for the pointers.
>
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On Mar 1, 9:13 pm, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com>
wrote:
> You know MacPorts is a source based package system? To be frank, I
> don''t understand the desire to install from source, it''s
just more
> stuff you have to track for keeping up to date and secure.
>
> There are a lot of keen Rubyists helping maintain MacPorts versions,
> so you get a very recent build, but with patches so that it actually
> works better than the vanilla upstream installs.
>
> You might also want to have a look at MacRuby,http://www.macruby.org/
> which has some excellent performance characteristics for a 1.9
> install.
i''ll have to take a look at both. i''ve tended to install from
source
for such things out of habit, but either way is fine. macruby does
seem like a very good option for testing.

thanks again, all.

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