Puppet users - Sep 2013 - Looking for tips for transitioning to Puppet Enterprise

I have bee using Open Source Puppet for about two years now -- and I have
enjoyed the ride so far.

I want to spin up a demo PE-Master because we are also spinning up a big VMWare
driven virtualization push and I want to try the Cloud Provisioning.  If it
works for me as well as everything else has to date, I will have no trouble
making the pitch to The Customer to go for PE licensing.

The difficulty I am having is transitioning from nodes defined under
/etc/puppet/manifests/nodes to nodes defined in the PE console.

I think I have to somehow add all my modules into the console and then I can
assign them to nodes.

Is that in the right direction ?

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

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Dan,

You can do those things from the PE console but you don''t have to. You
can
assign classes to nodes the old school way too. It''s really up to you
whether you prefer to do those kinds of things through the UI or in your
Puppet code.



On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Dan White wrote:
> I have bee using Open Source Puppet for about two years now -- and I have
> enjoyed the ride so far.
>
> I want to spin up a demo PE-Master because we are also spinning up a big
> VMWare driven virtualization push and I want to try the Cloud Provisioning.
>  If it works for me as well as everything else has to date, I will have no
> trouble making the pitch to The Customer to go for PE licensing.
>
> The difficulty I am having is transitioning from nodes defined under
> /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes to nodes defined in the PE console.
>
> I think I have to somehow add all my modules into the console and then I
> can assign them to nodes.
>
> Is that in the right direction ?
>
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
> in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
>
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OK. Lete me be more specific:

I have a module to handle user accounts that relies on hiera:

Accounts are defined at the lowest level of the hierarchy and instantiated
(ensure => present) up at the node level of the hierarchy.  The issue with
this is that I am getting complaints from other team members about having to
touch multiple yaml files at multiple locations in the data store (rather than
having to touch multiple servers), so I was hoping for a way to present it in
one “page” of the console - like Inventory Service or Inventory Search

My next choice is to hack together a ruby script to do the job from a command
line.

On Sep 11, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Rich Burroughs wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> You can do those things from the PE console but you don''t have to.
You can assign classes to nodes the old school way too. It''s really up
to you whether you prefer to do those kinds of things through the UI or in your
Puppet code.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Dan White wrote:
> I have bee using Open Source Puppet for about two years now -- and I have
enjoyed the ride so far.
> 
> I want to spin up a demo PE-Master because we are also spinning up a big
VMWare driven virtualization push and I want to try the Cloud Provisioning.  If
it works for me as well as everything else has to date, I will have no trouble
making the pitch to The Customer to go for PE licensing.
> 
> The difficulty I am having is transitioning from nodes defined under
/etc/puppet/manifests/nodes to nodes defined in the PE console.
> 
> I think I have to somehow add all my modules into the console and then I
can assign them to nodes.
> 
> Is that in the right direction ?
> 
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
> 
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