Puppet users - Mar 2011 - Updating all packages with Puppet

Hi folks,

I''m very new to Puppet and perhaps what I''m trying to do is a
trivial
thing. No so much for me though..

I use Puppet 2.6 to manage a bunch of CentOS 5 servers. A handful of web 
servers, a handful of app-tier servers and a couple of other hosts - 
ldap, mail, etc.

I''ve got a CentOS 5.5 repo on the Puppet/Kickstart server and install 
everything from there, obviously a slightly different package sets for 
each type of server.

Now the question: can I use Puppet to fetch all the latest updates from 
the updates repo? I know how to configure the yum repo with Puppet but 
don''t know how to trigger the update?

Ideally something like:
     ensure => no-more-package-updates-available
should do the trick :)

How can I do that?

Thx!

GiBo

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On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Giovanni Bordello wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I''m very new to Puppet and perhaps what I''m trying to do
is a trivial thing. No so much for me though..
> 
> I use Puppet 2.6 to manage a bunch of CentOS 5 servers. A handful of web
servers, a handful of app-tier servers and a couple of other hosts - ldap, mail,
etc.
> 
> I''ve got a CentOS 5.5 repo on the Puppet/Kickstart server and
install everything from there, obviously a slightly different package sets for
each type of server.
> 
> Now the question: can I use Puppet to fetch all the latest updates from the
updates repo? I know how to configure the yum repo with Puppet but
don''t know how to trigger the update?
> 
> Ideally something like:
>    ensure => no-more-package-updates-available
> should do the trick :)

Will make sure a package is installed:
package { "mysql-server":
	ensure => present
}

Will make sure a package is always up to date with the package database. (Or
depending on the provider, this might be the locally cached version of the
package database):
package { "mysql-server":
	ensure => latest
}
#Note: this may cause a large load on your package mirror if the provider checks
if the package is up to date on each run.  A local caching proxy or mirror is
recommended.


If you want to make sure that all installed packages, you need something like
this:
#Treat this is pesudo-code because I haven''t used Yum for a very long
time
exec { "/usr/sbin/yum --yes update":
	#Using something to make this not run on every run is useful.  At the least,
once per day should be enough.
}
#Again: this may cause a large load on your package mirror if the provider
checks if the package is up to date on each run.  A local caching proxy or
mirror is recommended.

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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Patrick <kc7zzv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Giovanni Bordello wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I''m very new to Puppet and perhaps what I''m trying to do
is a trivial
> thing. No so much for me though..
>
> I use Puppet 2.6 to manage a bunch of CentOS 5 servers. A handful of web
> servers, a handful of app-tier servers and a couple of other hosts - ldap,
> mail, etc.
>
> I''ve got a CentOS 5.5 repo on the Puppet/Kickstart server and
install
> everything from there, obviously a slightly different package sets for each
> type of server.
>
> Now the question: can I use Puppet to fetch all the latest updates from the
> updates repo? I know how to configure the yum repo with Puppet but
don''t
> know how to trigger the update?
>
> Ideally something like:
>    ensure => no-more-package-updates-available
> should do the trick :)
>
>
> Will make sure a package is installed:
> package { "mysql-server":
> ensure => present
> }
>
> Will make sure a package is always up to date with the package database.
> (Or depending on the provider, this might be the locally cached version of
> the package database):
> package { "mysql-server":
> ensure => latest
> }
> #Note: this may cause a large load on your package mirror if the provider
> checks if the package is up to date on each run.  A local caching proxy or
> mirror is recommended.
>
With Centos, you can also use:

package {
    ensure => "$version";
}

to make sure a specific version of an RPM is installed. I don''t think
that''s
actually documented.

Doug.

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:11:23AM -0800, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> to make sure a specific version of an RPM is installed. I don''t
think that''s
> actually documented.
RPM is listed as versionable at
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#package so it is
documented there certainly.

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