Puppet users - May 2009 - Why can't I use Puppet for Windows ?

Hi,

From initial reading Puppet looks very powerful tool, but I am looking
for a solution that support multiple OS including windows. Why can''t I
use Puppet for Windows ?   (Couldn''t I simply run JRuby?)

Thanks in advance for your response!
Regards,



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> From initial reading Puppet looks very powerful tool, but I am looking
> for a solution that support multiple OS including windows. Why
can''t I
> use Puppet for Windows ?   (Couldn''t I simply run JRuby?)
It''s feasible just not yet implemented yet.

Mostly the providers have not been written yet, along with some
porting stuff. Windows handles groups, users, services, packages, etc
very differently to *nix so we have to have a base set of types to
make sense, then probably other custom windows specific types.

There is some work under review to start to introduce support on the dev list.

Paul

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harry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> From initial reading Puppet looks very powerful tool, but I am looking
> for a solution that support multiple OS including windows. Why
can''t I
> use Puppet for Windows ?   (Couldn''t I simply run JRuby?)
Puppet has to understand how to do things on target platforms, for
example how to create a user.  Whilst Puppet might run as a daemon
currently it doesn''t know how to perform actions like creating a user
or
group on Windows.

However, there is some code in development to support Windows.  Assuming
all goes smoothly it will be in the next beta release for 0.25.0.

You can see the latest code at:

http://github.com/finalprefix/puppet/tree/win

Regards

James Turnbull

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