Re: [Puppet Users] Installing only the puppet client

James Turnbull
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:14 -0000

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On 17/01/10 6:33 AM, Forrie wrote:
> Is there a way to deploy/install only the client portion of puppet?

Not via install.rb

> It''s possible I''m approaching this incorrectly, though it
doesn''t make
> a lot of sense to install puppetmasterd on systems that are only
> clients.    Another option, perhaps, is to have puppet actually update
> the client portion on the managed systems.   Has anyone done this?

IMHO - yes - don''t install via source! It''s not scalable and
it
leads to issues when upgrading.

Use your operating system or distribution''s packaging system instead.

You can then easily use Puppet to manage itself on clients - in fact
I recommend it as an approach.

Regards

James Turnbull

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