Puppet users - Jun 2008 - Suggestions for one-time initializtion by puppet

I am having a small problem. I am setting up puppet to handle a small
RHEL cluster The basic of installing the apps, getting services turned
on is all working. The problem is I need a way to do the
initialization of luci ( the redhat webinterface to the Conga suite).
This a one time operation and should only happen when luci is first
installed.

I have found that is normally smarter and easier to resotre data to a
clean configured puppet managed box after it has been put online than
to attempt to have puppet do the data restore on a server rebuild..
The old adage of the right tool for the right job, let puppet handle
the SCM and teh backup system handle the backup/restore. I am at a
loss as to the right tool to handle one-time service init tasks.

Any pointers, recommendations or suggestions?

Evan

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On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Evan Hisey wrote:
>
> I am having a small problem. I am setting up puppet to handle a small
> RHEL cluster The basic of installing the apps, getting services turned
> on is all working. The problem is I need a way to do the
> initialization of luci ( the redhat webinterface to the Conga suite).
> This a one time operation and should only happen when luci is first
> installed.
>
> I have found that is normally smarter and easier to resotre data to a
> clean configured puppet managed box after it has been put online than
> to attempt to have puppet do the data restore on a server rebuild..
> The old adage of the right tool for the right job, let puppet handle
> the SCM and teh backup system handle the backup/restore. I am at a
> loss as to the right tool to handle one-time service init tasks.
>
> Any pointers, recommendations or suggestions?
In this situation, I would normally have an external script that did  
that work, and just trigger that from puppet as part of the install.

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On 6/17/2008 3:54 PM, Evan Hisey wrote:
> I am having a small problem. I am setting up puppet to handle a small
> RHEL cluster The basic of installing the apps, getting services turned
> on is all working. The problem is I need a way to do the
> initialization of luci ( the redhat webinterface to the Conga suite).
> This a one time operation and should only happen when luci is first
> installed.
If luci is a package, you can have an exec with a require dependency on 
that package''s installation.

If the initialization leaves traces on the filesystem, or through any 
shell command so that you know it''s been done, you can either use a 
''creates'' with the exec for a file, or an
''onlyif'' with the exec for a
shell command.

http://reductivelabs.com/bzr/modules/subversion/manifests/svnrepo.pp has 
an example that only creates repositories once, that you could use for a 
jumping off point.

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

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