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James Turnbull

2009-Aug-04 01:52 UTC

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

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This is the rc1 release of Puppet 0.25.0.

It is available at:

http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0rc1.tar.gz

This is not production ready code (almost though!) - it is a release
candidate for testing.

The release candidate is fully feature complete.  The proposed Windows
support did not make it into 0.25.0 due to time constraints.

Please test and report issues with the release
candidate.  We aim to get the full release out before the end of the month.

Please log any issues found during testing at:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/issues/new

Please select the Affected Version as 0.25.0rc1.

Please email any other specific questions, comments or feedback to
the puppet-user list.

What''s Changed?
- ---------------

There are substantial changes in Puppet 0.25.0 and more changes to
come in the future.  Most of the changes in 0.25.0 are internal
refactoring rather than behavioural.  The 0.25.0 release should be
fully backwards compatible behaviourally with the 0.24.x branch.

This means a 0.25.0 master will be able to manage 0.24.x clients.
You will need, however, to upgrade both your master and your clients
to take advantage of all the new features and the substantial gains
in performance offered by 0.25.0.

The principal change is the introduction of Indirected REST to
replace XML-RPC as the underlying Puppet communications mechanism.
This is a staged change with some functions migrated in this release
and some in the next release.  In the first stage of the Indirected
REST implementation the following functions have been migrated:

- - Certificates
- - Catalogue
- - Reports
- - Files

In 0.26.0 (the next release) the following remaining functions will
be migrated:

- - Filebucket
- - Resource handler
- - Runner handler
- - Status handler

The new REST implementation also comes with authorisation
configuration in a similar style to the namespaceauth used for
XML-RPC.  This new authorisation is managed through the auth.conf
file (there is an example file in the conf directory of the
tarball). This does not yet fully replace the namespaceauth.conf
file but will when the remaining handlers are migrated to REST.  It
works in a similar way to the namespaceauth.conf file and the
example file contains additional documentation.

As a result of the introduction of REST and other changes you should
see substantial performance improvements in this release.  These
particularly include improvements in:

- - File serving
- - The performance of large graphs with lots of edges
- - Stored configuration (see also Puppet Queuing below)

Other new features include (this is not a complete list - please see
the Roadmap for all tickets closed in this release):

New Language Features
- ---------------------

Regular expression matching is now possible in node definitions.

node /web|db/ {
    include blah
}

node /^(foo|bar)\.example\.com$/ {
    include blah
}

Puppet now also allows regular expressions in if statements with the use
of the =~ (match) and !~ (not match) operators.

if $uname =~ /Linux|Debian/ {
  ...
}

Also available are ephemeral variables ($0 to $9) in the current scope
which contain regex captures:

if $uname =~ /(Linux|Debian)/ {
  notice("this is a $1 system")
}

Similar functionality is available in case and selector statements:

$var = "foobar"
case $var {
    "foo": {
         notify { "got a foo": }
    }
    /(.*)bar$/: {
         notify{ "hey we got a $1": }
    }
}

$val = $test ? {
	/^match.*$/ => "matched",
  default => "default"
}

New functions
- -------------

There are three new functions:

require - Similar to the include function but creates a dependency
on the required class in the current class.  This means the required
class will be loaded before the current class is processed.

split - allows you to split strings and arrays

versioncmp - allows you to compare versions

Command Line Compile & Apply
- ----------------------------

Puppet now has the capability to compile a catalogue and output it
in JSON from the Puppet master.  You can do this via the --compile
command line option.

# puppetmasterd --compile nodename

Corresponding with this feature is the ability to apply a JSON
configuration from the puppet binary using the --apply option.

# puppet --apply cataloguefile

Or you can use - to read the JSON in from standard input.  Puppet
will then compile and apply the configuration.

Thin Stored Configuration
- -------------------------

0.25.0 also introduces the concept of "thin" stored configurations.
This is a version of stored configuration that only stores the
facts and exported resources in the database.  This will perform
better than full stored configuration but because not all resources
are available this may not suit all purposes.

Thin stored configurations are initiated by setting the
thin_storeconfigs option on the Puppet master or on the
puppetmasterd command line using --thin_storedconfigs.

Puppet Queuing
- ---------------

There is a new binary called puppetqd that supports queuing for
stored configurations.  You can read about how it works and how to
implement it at:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingStoredConfiguration

Further documentation is in the README.queuing file in the tarball.

Application Controller
- ----------------------
All the logic has been moved out of the binary commands and added to
an Application Controller.  You can see the controller code at
lib/puppet/application.rb and the logic for each application at
lib/puppet/application/binaryname.rb.

Binary Location Move
- --------------------
To bring Puppet more in line with general packaging standards the
puppetd, puppetca, puppetrun, puppetmasterd, and puppetqd binaries
now reside in the sbin directory rather than the bin directory when
installed from the source package.

Other features
- --------------

You can find a full list of the tickets closed thus far for version
0.25.0 is at:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/versions/show/3

Regards

James Turnbull

- --
Author of:
* Pro Linux Systems Administration
(http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin)
* Pulling Strings with Puppet
(http://tinyurl.com/pupbook)
* Pro Nagios 2.0
(http://tinyurl.com/pronagios)
* Hardening Linux
(http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux)

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Nigel Kersten

2009-Aug-04 03:29 UTC

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[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, James Turnbull<james@lovedthanlost.net>
wrote:>
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>
> This is the rc1 release of Puppet 0.25.0.
>
> It is available at:
>
> http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0rc1.tar.gz
And there''s a Mac pkg up here:

https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/Home/puppet_0.25.0-rc1.pkg.tar.bz2

This should cleanly upgrade from puppet 0.24.x to puppet 0.25.0-rc1.
Please test.

>
> This is not production ready code (almost though!) - it is a release
> candidate for testing.
>
> The release candidate is fully feature complete.  The proposed Windows
> support did not make it into 0.25.0 due to time constraints.
>
> Please test and report issues with the release
> candidate.  We aim to get the full release out before the end of the month.
>
> Please log any issues found during testing at:
>
> http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/issues/new
>
> Please select the Affected Version as 0.25.0rc1.
>
> Please email any other specific questions, comments or feedback to
> the puppet-user list.
>
> What''s Changed?
> - ---------------
>
> There are substantial changes in Puppet 0.25.0 and more changes to
> come in the future.  Most of the changes in 0.25.0 are internal
> refactoring rather than behavioural.  The 0.25.0 release should be
> fully backwards compatible behaviourally with the 0.24.x branch.
>
> This means a 0.25.0 master will be able to manage 0.24.x clients.
> You will need, however, to upgrade both your master and your clients
> to take advantage of all the new features and the substantial gains
> in performance offered by 0.25.0.
>
> The principal change is the introduction of Indirected REST to
> replace XML-RPC as the underlying Puppet communications mechanism.
> This is a staged change with some functions migrated in this release
> and some in the next release.  In the first stage of the Indirected
> REST implementation the following functions have been migrated:
>
> - - Certificates
> - - Catalogue
> - - Reports
> - - Files
>
> In 0.26.0 (the next release) the following remaining functions will
> be migrated:
>
> - - Filebucket
> - - Resource handler
> - - Runner handler
> - - Status handler
>
> The new REST implementation also comes with authorisation
> configuration in a similar style to the namespaceauth used for
> XML-RPC.  This new authorisation is managed through the auth.conf
> file (there is an example file in the conf directory of the
> tarball). This does not yet fully replace the namespaceauth.conf
> file but will when the remaining handlers are migrated to REST.  It
> works in a similar way to the namespaceauth.conf file and the
> example file contains additional documentation.
>
> As a result of the introduction of REST and other changes you should
> see substantial performance improvements in this release.  These
> particularly include improvements in:
>
> - - File serving
> - - The performance of large graphs with lots of edges
> - - Stored configuration (see also Puppet Queuing below)
>
> Other new features include (this is not a complete list - please see
> the Roadmap for all tickets closed in this release):
>
> New Language Features
> - ---------------------
>
> Regular expression matching is now possible in node definitions.
>
> node /web|db/ {
>    include blah
> }
>
> node /^(foo|bar)\.example\.com$/ {
>    include blah
> }
>
> Puppet now also allows regular expressions in if statements with the use
> of the =~ (match) and !~ (not match) operators.
>
> if $uname =~ /Linux|Debian/ {
>  ...
> }
>
> Also available are ephemeral variables ($0 to $9) in the current scope
> which contain regex captures:
>
> if $uname =~ /(Linux|Debian)/ {
>  notice("this is a $1 system")
> }
>
> Similar functionality is available in case and selector statements:
>
> $var = "foobar"
> case $var {
>    "foo": {
>         notify { "got a foo": }
>    }
>    /(.*)bar$/: {
>         notify{ "hey we got a $1": }
>    }
> }
>
> $val = $test ? {
>        /^match.*$/ => "matched",
>  default => "default"
> }
>
> New functions
> - -------------
>
> There are three new functions:
>
> require - Similar to the include function but creates a dependency
> on the required class in the current class.  This means the required
> class will be loaded before the current class is processed.
>
> split - allows you to split strings and arrays
>
> versioncmp - allows you to compare versions
>
> Command Line Compile & Apply
> - ----------------------------
>
> Puppet now has the capability to compile a catalogue and output it
> in JSON from the Puppet master.  You can do this via the --compile
> command line option.
>
> # puppetmasterd --compile nodename
>
> Corresponding with this feature is the ability to apply a JSON
> configuration from the puppet binary using the --apply option.
>
> # puppet --apply cataloguefile
>
> Or you can use - to read the JSON in from standard input.  Puppet
> will then compile and apply the configuration.
>
> Thin Stored Configuration
> - -------------------------
>
> 0.25.0 also introduces the concept of "thin" stored
configurations.
> This is a version of stored configuration that only stores the
> facts and exported resources in the database.  This will perform
> better than full stored configuration but because not all resources
> are available this may not suit all purposes.
>
> Thin stored configurations are initiated by setting the
> thin_storeconfigs option on the Puppet master or on the
> puppetmasterd command line using --thin_storedconfigs.
>
> Puppet Queuing
> - ---------------
>
> There is a new binary called puppetqd that supports queuing for
> stored configurations.  You can read about how it works and how to
> implement it at:
>
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingStoredConfiguration
>
> Further documentation is in the README.queuing file in the tarball.
>
> Application Controller
> - ----------------------
> All the logic has been moved out of the binary commands and added to
> an Application Controller.  You can see the controller code at
> lib/puppet/application.rb and the logic for each application at
> lib/puppet/application/binaryname.rb.
>
> Binary Location Move
> - --------------------
> To bring Puppet more in line with general packaging standards the
> puppetd, puppetca, puppetrun, puppetmasterd, and puppetqd binaries
> now reside in the sbin directory rather than the bin directory when
> installed from the source package.
>
> Other features
> - --------------
>
> You can find a full list of the tickets closed thus far for version
> 0.25.0 is at:
>
> http://projects.reductivelabs.com/versions/show/3
>
> Regards
>
> James Turnbull
>
> - --
> Author of:
> * Pro Linux Systems Administration
> (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin)
> * Pulling Strings with Puppet
> (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook)
> * Pro Nagios 2.0
> (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios)
> * Hardening Linux
> (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux)
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Todd Zullinger

2009-Aug-05 05:00 UTC

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[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

James Turnbull wrote:> This is the rc1 release of Puppet 0.25.0.
There are now packages for Fedora 10/11/rawhide and EL 4/5 in my
testing repository at:

    http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/

Please report any packaging or repository bugs to me and not to the
Puppet or Fedora bug trackers.  And be sure to report any
non-packaging bugs to the Puppet bug tracker. :)

(One repository bug I''ve noticed is that EL4 does not seem to like the
rpm signing key I''ve been using.  I don''t know if I just
didn''t notice
this before or if somehow I''ve managed to butcher the format of the
key file.  I am pretty sure it''s the former, as the changelog for
rpm-4.4.2 says "permit gpg to be used for RSA signatures.")

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Duncan Hill

2009-Aug-05 06:50 UTC

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[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

2009/8/4 James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net>:>
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>
> This is the rc1 release of Puppet 0.25.0.
>
> It is available at:
>
> http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0rc1.tar.gz
> New Language Features
> - ---------------------
>
> Regular expression matching is now possible in node definitions.
>
> node /web|db/ {
>    include blah
> }
>
> node /^(foo|bar)\.example\.com$/ {
>    include blah
> }
>
> Puppet now also allows regular expressions in if statements with the use
> of the =~ (match) and !~ (not match) operators.
>
> if $uname =~ /Linux|Debian/ {
>  ...
> }
Woot!  This solves a problem I''ve just created for myself (multiple
servers that are all essentially identical other than their name and
IP) in a much nicer method than I was using.

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Eric Sorenson

2009-Aug-05 17:56 UTC

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[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> And there''s a Mac pkg up here:
>
>
https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/Home/puppet_0.25.0-rc1.pkg.tar.bz2
You could probably do this as easily as I did, but FWIW here''s a diff  
for macports.


Index: dports/sysutils/puppet/Portfile
==================================================================---
dports/sysutils/puppet/Portfile	(revision 54921)
+++ dports/sysutils/puppet/Portfile	(working copy)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  PortSystem          1.0

  name                puppet
-version             0.24.8
+version             0.25.0rc1
  categories          sysutils
  maintainers         explanatorygap.net:nigel

@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@

  master_sites        http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/

-extract.suffix      .tgz
+extract.suffix      .tar.gz

-checksums           md5 288d46dee00acad64d0f3ecc6d8ba6fa \
-                    sha1 a871aef6f3e8e060f5109bb022967066e32875be \
-                    rmd160 edb187da9225c9faee9839a5d644b5c9c91f3d5f
+checksums           md5 fbb08deb34df3c227f3dc521a4bfd15b \
+                    sha1 159fd33368727a2b090c300414fbdd847c159ec2 \
+                    rmd160 aae58abf32210a85be6c8d0b1936d1118d837d7b

  depends_lib         port:ruby \
                      port:facter


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Nigel Kersten

2009-Aug-05 18:50 UTC

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[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Eric Sorenson<ahpook@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>
>> And there''s a Mac pkg up here:
>>
>>
>>
https://sites.google.com/a/explanatorygap.net/puppet/Home/puppet_0.25.0-rc1.pkg.tar.bz2
>
> You could probably do this as easily as I did, but FWIW here''s a
diff for
> macports.
Oh cool. Thanks Eric.

I started working on variant to submit upstream instead, but then
decided against it.
>
>
> Index: dports/sysutils/puppet/Portfile
> ==================================================================> ---
dports/sysutils/puppet/Portfile     (revision 54921)
> +++ dports/sysutils/puppet/Portfile     (working copy)
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>  PortSystem          1.0
>
>  name                puppet
> -version             0.24.8
> +version             0.25.0rc1
>  categories          sysutils
>  maintainers         explanatorygap.net:nigel
>
> @@ -21,11 +21,11 @@
>
>  master_sites        http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/
>
> -extract.suffix      .tgz
> +extract.suffix      .tar.gz
>
> -checksums           md5 288d46dee00acad64d0f3ecc6d8ba6fa \
> -                    sha1 a871aef6f3e8e060f5109bb022967066e32875be \
> -                    rmd160 edb187da9225c9faee9839a5d644b5c9c91f3d5f
> +checksums           md5 fbb08deb34df3c227f3dc521a4bfd15b \
> +                    sha1 159fd33368727a2b090c300414fbdd847c159ec2 \
> +                    rmd160 aae58abf32210a85be6c8d0b1936d1118d837d7b
>
>  depends_lib         port:ruby \
>                     port:facter
>
>


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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen

2009-Aug-07 10:27 UTC

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[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

James Turnbull <james@lovedthanlost.net> writes:
> This is the rc1 release of Puppet 0.25.0.
>
> It is available at:
>
> http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0rc1.tar.gz
>
> This is not production ready code (almost though!) - it is a release
> candidate for testing.
There are now packages of puppet 0.25.0rc1 for Debian stable (lenny)
available in my repository at:

    http://people.debian.org/~ssm/puppet/

Please report any packaging or repository bugs to me, and not to the
Debian bug tracker.  Please report any non-packaging bugs to the Puppet
bug tracker.

Apt source:

    deb http://people.debian.org/~ssm/puppet/ lenny/all/

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