Puppet users - Apr 2011 - Deploying puppet with puppet, best practices

Our shop is newly adopting puppet.   Our number of nodes is growing
and my installation method is thus far manual and tedious.   This will
change when/if we migrate to Puppet Enterprise.

My question is what''s a best practice for managing puppet
installations on client nodes?   Is it possible to separate out the
client portion of the install from the server or is that now fully
integrated?

The puppet.conf file could be templated for distribution.

Thanks for any tips, etc.

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Forrie <forrie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our shop is newly adopting puppet.   Our number of nodes is growing
> and my installation method is thus far manual and tedious.   This will
> change when/if we migrate to Puppet Enterprise.
>
> My question is what''s a best practice for managing puppet
> installations on client nodes?   Is it possible to separate out the
> client portion of the install from the server or is that now fully
> integrated?
>
> The puppet.conf file could be templated for distribution.
>
> Thanks for any tips, etc.
>
> --
>
You might consider using Foreman [1] for this task.

Ohad

[1] - http://theforeman.org

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We use cobbler for client installs and that works well for our centos servers,
foreman can handle more distributions.

As for installing the client software itself, we use a custom RPM package that
is installed at build time or anytime after.

We are still building out our manifests so we are tackling one service at a time
on each node type.

Cheers,

On 07/04/2011, at 5:11, Ohad Levy <ohadlevy@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Forrie <forrie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our shop is newly adopting puppet.   Our number of nodes is growing
> and my installation method is thus far manual and tedious.   This will
> change when/if we migrate to Puppet Enterprise.
> 
> My question is what''s a best practice for managing puppet
> installations on client nodes?   Is it possible to separate out the
> client portion of the install from the server or is that now fully
> integrated?
> 
> The puppet.conf file could be templated for distribution.
> 
> Thanks for any tips, etc.
> 
> --
> You might consider using Foreman [1] for this task.
> 
> Ohad
> 
> [1] - http://theforeman.org
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A while ago, I noticed a *.spec file in the puppet distribution - but
I think it was out of date.   I could use that to distribute an RPM.

Curious, do you separate out the client/server portions for
installation or just install the whole thing on client systems.

This will be different for us when/if we adopt Puppet Enterprise...
and I''m curious how they manage the updates to that if at all.


Thanks for all the helpful info, much appreciated.

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The spec file specifies two packages - a client & server. I''m not
sure how
PE updates work however.

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