Re: [Puppet Users] puppet capistrano and repository

Lindsay Holmwood
2010-07-13T00:01:39Z

On 13 July 2010 06:51, Julian Simpson <simpsonjulian@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On 12 July 2010 14:33, bmort <propertywholesaler@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> - start puppet with Capistrano
>> - puppet checks the  ''repository''  and determines
changes have been
>> made
>> - applies  any changes
>>
>
> Can I ask why you want to do that?  You want to push the Puppet manifests
> out to the node with Capistrano?  It would be a simple capistrano task to
> run Puppet standalone.  You can override configuration settings on the
> command line.  But I ''m wondering why you''d want do to
that.

Running Puppet without a puppetmaster would be one reason.

You could have a repository of your manifests that your machines check
out and run against. Cap is a poor mans way of orchestrating that
setup in lieu of something more powerful like MCollective.

Lindsay

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