Puppet users - Jun 2010 - running puppet withput puppetmasterd

Hi,

I''m pretty sure I once did some experiments with running puppet
wihtout a puppertmasterd - but having a "normal" puppet manifests and
modules structure in /etc/puppet.

Sadly, I can''t find how to do that anymore.

I know I can write plain puppet instructions in a file.pp and run them
plainly - but I want the whole config as if it would reside on a
server)

When I run "puppet /etc/manifests/site.pp" I get onloy import errors.
When I run puppetd it only complains that it cannot access any server.

I''m probably missing something very simple and stupid...

Ideas?

Thanks,
Henning

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> When I run "puppet /etc/manifests/site.pp" I get onloy import
errors.
> When I run puppetd it only complains that it cannot access any server.

Try adding a --modulepath to the puppet command line.  You may need to  
tweak your manifests: make sure that file urls are of the form  
puppet:///some/path.
>
J.

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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Julian Simpson <simpsonjulian@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Try adding a --modulepath to the puppet command line.  You may need to
tweak
> your manifests: make sure that file urls are of the form
> puppet:///some/path.
Thanks!

But somehow I felt that wasn''t what I was doing back then and searched
again, this time I found immediately what I didn''t find searching for
an hour before:

http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/2010/04/puppet-stand-alone-templates-configs/

so, you(or, I ;) ) have to run

puppet site.pp

directly from /etc/puppet/manifests

Now I''m checking if I even could run that somehow if the
manifests/modules/... structure is somewhere else, e.g. on an nfs
mount.


Henning

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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Henning Sprang <henning.sprang@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Now I''m checking if I even could run that somehow if the
> manifests/modules/... structure is somewhere else, e.g. on an nfs
> mount.
Actually, only this last thing (and that was what I wanted to do
first) is what really requires to set the confdir explicitly, like

 cd /path/to/puppet/dir/manifests

puppet --confdir /path/to/puppet/dir site.pp

or without cd''ing in the manifests dir:

 puppet --confdir /path/to/puppet/dir /path/to/puppet/dir/site.pp

running

 puppet /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp

runs just like this, I must have made something wrong elsewhere.


Henning

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>
> Actually, only this last thing (and that was what I wanted to do
> first) is what really requires to set the confdir explicitly, like
>
>  cd /path/to/puppet/dir/manifests
>
> puppet --confdir /path/to/puppet/dir site.pp
>
> or without cd''ing in the manifests dir:
>
>  puppet --confdir /path/to/puppet/dir /path/to/puppet/dir/site.pp
>
> running
>
>  puppet /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
>
> runs just like this, I must have made something wrong elsewhere.
>
>
this is what works for me:

namespace :puppet do
  puppetmaster= ''redacted.juliansimpson.org''
  args = " --modulepath #{root}/etc/puppet/modules "
  args += " --templatedir #{root}/etc/templates "
  args += " --environment development "

  task :test do
    sh "cd etc/puppet && puppet #{args} --parseonly
manifests/site.pp"
    sh "cd etc/puppet && puppet #{args} --noop manifests/site.pp  
--debug"
  end

  desc "run the puppet stuff"
  task :run do
    sh "cd etc/puppet && puppet #{args} manifests/site.pp"
  end

where #{root} is

root=File.dirname(__FILE__)

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On Jun 5, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Henning Sprang wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Julian Simpson
<simpsonjulian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try adding a --modulepath to the puppet command line.  You may need to
tweak
>> your manifests: make sure that file urls are of the form
>> puppet:///some/path.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> But somehow I felt that wasn''t what I was doing back then and
searched
> again, this time I found immediately what I didn''t find searching
for
> an hour before:
> 
>
http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/2010/04/puppet-stand-alone-templates-configs/
> 
> so, you(or, I ;) ) have to run
> 
> puppet site.pp
> 
> directly from /etc/puppet/manifests
> 
> Now I''m checking if I even could run that somehow if the
> manifests/modules/... structure is somewhere else, e.g. on an nfs
> mount.
You could just mount the nfs mount on to /etc/puppet/modules/

Also, I''ve heard that some people have luck rsyncing the modules folder
to the local machine.

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