Hi, I''m starting to look into puppet to manage a bunch of linux desktops. They all use dhcp and their IP addresses are not fixed. I''m thinking of fixing the hostnames of the machines to some non-existent domain and then using puppet normally. In this way even if their IP address changes from time to time, the hostname will not and the certificate used by puppet will be always the same and everything should work. What do you think? Do you have any better suggestion to manage machines with non-fixed IPs? Thanks, Daniel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Daniel De Marco <ddm@bartol.udel.edu> wrote:> I''m starting to look into puppet to manage a bunch of linux desktops. > They all use dhcp and their IP addresses are not fixed. > > I''m thinking of fixing the hostnames of the machines to some non-existent > domain and then using puppet normally. In this way even if their IP > address changes from time to time, the hostname will not and the > certificate used by puppet will be always the same and everything should > work. > > What do you think? Do you have any better suggestion to manage machines > with non-fixed IPs?That solution has worked well for me, though I tend toward even more generic solutions where every server that contacts a given puppetmaster gets exactly the same configuration. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
The ip address does not really matter, if you want to force your own certificate names, you can use the certname option instead on relaying on facter to resolve the fqdn fact for you. Ohad On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Daniel De Marco <ddm@bartol.udel.edu>wrote:> Hi, > > I''m starting to look into puppet to manage a bunch of linux desktops. > They all use dhcp and their IP addresses are not fixed. > > I''m thinking of fixing the hostnames of the machines to some non-existent > domain and then using puppet normally. In this way even if their IP > address changes from time to time, the hostname will not and the > certificate used by puppet will be always the same and everything should > work. > > What do you think? Do you have any better suggestion to manage machines > with non-fixed IPs? > > Thanks, Daniel. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > >-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
* Ohad Levy <ohadlevy@gmail.com> [06/15/2010 22:38]:> The ip address does not really matter, if you want to force your own > certificate names, you can use the certname option instead on relaying on > facter to resolve the fqdn fact for you.ah... that''s even better. I didn''t notice that option on the manual. Thanks, Daniel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.