Puppet users - May 2012 - Newbie question: what to start from?

Hello fellow community members!

I just joined you in order to find an information about how to start
using Puppet...

Currently we use cfengine for our legacy system containing several OS
platforms, including physical and virtual servers. For fresh new
hardware and OS versions we decided to go with Puppet due to it''s
growing popularity (wow, 4082 members of this group only!).

I''ve installed it on a Linux KVM guest, it is up and running.

What''s next, what would you recommend me to do now, in order to avoid
common errors causing messy configuration? Do we have some kind of
FAQ?

Sincerely,
Anatoliy

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Welcome :)

I started here:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/

Lots of good material.

On May 17, 10:24 pm, "Anatoliy Lisovskiy (Wavebourn)"
<wavebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow community members!
>
> I just joined you in order to find an information about how to start
> using Puppet...
>
> Currently we use cfengine for our legacy system containing several OS
> platforms, including physical and virtual servers. For fresh new
> hardware and OS versions we decided to go with Puppet due to it''s
> growing popularity (wow, 4082 members of this group only!).
>
> I''ve installed it on a Linux KVM guest, it is up and running.
>
> What''s next, what would you recommend me to do now, in order to
avoid
> common errors causing messy configuration? Do we have some kind of
> FAQ?
>
> Sincerely,
> Anatoliy
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Thanks anyway. ;)

When we started using cfengine long time ago cookbooks _with_examples_ were
available, it was very convenient.

Anatoliy


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Andy Taylor <andytayloruk@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Welcome :)
>
> I started here:
>
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/
>
> Lots of good material.
>
> On May 17, 10:24 pm, "Anatoliy Lisovskiy (Wavebourn)"
> <wavebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello fellow community members!
> >
> > I just joined you in order to find an information about how to start
> > using Puppet...
> >
> > Currently we use cfengine for our legacy system containing several OS
> > platforms, including physical and virtual servers. For fresh new
> > hardware and OS versions we decided to go with Puppet due to
it''s
> > growing popularity (wow, 4082 members of this group only!).
> >
> > I''ve installed it on a Linux KVM guest, it is up and running.
> >
> > What''s next, what would you recommend me to do now, in order
to avoid
> > common errors causing messy configuration? Do we have some kind of
> > FAQ?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Anatoliy
>
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I''m not associated with this site in any way but you might want to look
at
http://www.example42.com/ and  https://github.com/example42, they have a
lot of examples and existing modules you could look through to get a feel
for how Puppet is put together.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Anatoliy Lisovskiy
<wavebourn@gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks anyway. ;)
>
> When we started using cfengine long time ago cookbooks _with_examples_
> were available, it was very convenient.
>
> Anatoliy
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Andy Taylor
<andytayloruk@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Welcome :)
>>
>> I started here:
>>
>> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/
>>
>> Lots of good material.
>>
>> On May 17, 10:24 pm, "Anatoliy Lisovskiy (Wavebourn)"
>> <wavebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello fellow community members!
>> >
>> > I just joined you in order to find an information about how to
start
>> > using Puppet...
>> >
>> > Currently we use cfengine for our legacy system containing several
OS
>> > platforms, including physical and virtual servers. For fresh new
>> > hardware and OS versions we decided to go with Puppet due to
it''s
>> > growing popularity (wow, 4082 members of this group only!).
>> >
>> > I''ve installed it on a Linux KVM guest, it is up and
running.
>> >
>> > What''s next, what would you recommend me to do now, in
order to avoid
>> > common errors causing messy configuration? Do we have some kind of
>> > FAQ?
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Anatoliy
>>
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http://forge.puppetlabs.com/

That''s sort of like a cookbook.

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:01:51AM -0700, Anatoliy Lisovskiy
wrote:
>    Thanks anyway. ;)
> 
>    When we started using cfengine long time ago cookbooks _with_examples_
>    were available, it was very convenient.
> 
>    Anatoliy
> 
>    On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Andy Taylor
<[1]andytayloruk@gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Welcome :)
> 
>      I started here:
> 
>      [2]http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/
> 
>      Lots of good material.
> 
>      On May 17, 10:24�pm, "Anatoliy Lisovskiy (Wavebourn)"
>      <[3]wavebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>      > Hello fellow community members!
>      >
>      > I just joined you in order to find an information about how to
start
>      > using Puppet...
>      >
>      > Currently we use cfengine for our legacy system containing
several OS
>      > platforms, including physical and virtual servers. For fresh new
>      > hardware and OS versions we decided to go with Puppet due to
it''s
>      > growing popularity (wow, 4082 members of this group only!).
>      >
>      > I''ve installed it on a Linux KVM guest, it is up and
running.
>      >
>      > What''s next, what would you recommend me to do now, in
order to avoid
>      > common errors causing messy configuration? Do we have some kind
of
>      > FAQ?
>      >
>      > Sincerely,
>      > Anatoliy
> 
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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Christopher Wood
<christopher_wood@pobox.com> wrote:
>>    When we started using cfengine long time ago cookbooks
_with_examples_
>>    were available, it was very convenient.
There''s an integrated set of example modules here that are worth a
look:
http://www.example42.com/

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