Re: [Puppet Users] puppet capistrano and repository

Julian Simpson
2010-07-13T09:56:22Z

>
> 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.
>
> I could have asked that question in a more coherent way.   I run Puppet
without a puppetmaster myself.  My process starts with a Rake build that
invokes Puppet standalone, with all of the relevant configuration options
supplied on the command line, with their paths resolved so I can check out
my repo and then run ''rake puppet:run''.  The original question
suggested
that they wanted something more complex, with a Continuous Integration-like
approach to checking for changes.

Personally I wouldn''t do that as you should be able to run Puppet with
impunity, whenever you feel like it.  To me, testing for changes suggests
that someone really isn''t happy about the idea :)

Best

Julian.