Puppet users - May 2011 - templates on puppetmaster, shipped via scp to clients

Hi folks,

I can''t run puppet client on my nodes.  I want to fake facter info to
process templates and ship them via scp to my nodes.  Is it possible?
Strategies?

This work will be utilized later in a proper Puppet setup, as the
ports will open up and I will be able to run the puppet client from
the node, as per normal puppet config.

Any hints?  HOWTOs?

Many thanks,
-judd

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On 05/03/2011 09:50 PM, Judd Maltin wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I can''t run puppet client on my nodes.  I want to fake facter info
to
> process templates and ship them via scp to my nodes.  Is it possible?
> Strategies?
> 
> This work will be utilized later in a proper Puppet setup, as the
> ports will open up and I will be able to run the puppet client from
> the node, as per normal puppet config.
> 
> Any hints?  HOWTOs?
I don''t see a need to do much faking.

Use SCP to synchronize your manifests *and* templates, then just use
"puppet apply" on your site.pp. It should work (and is the prefered
paradigm to some, IIRC).

HTH,
Felix

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> Subject: [Puppet Users] templates on puppetmaster, shipped 
> via scp to clients
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I can''t run puppet client on my nodes.  I want to fake facter 
> info to process templates and ship them via scp to my nodes.  
> Is it possible?
> Strategies?
I think puppet just uses the erb program to process its templates
so you should just be able to use that directly, I would expect.

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Thanks Russell and Felix!  That makes plenty of sense - the puppet
client can do all the manifest and template processing that
puppetmaster can do, plus it has access to facter facts.

On May 4, 6:31 am, Russell Howe <rh...@moonfruit.com>
wrote:
> > Subject: [Puppet Users] templates on puppetmaster, shipped
> > via scp to clients
>
> > Hi folks,
>
> > I can''t run puppet client on my nodes.  I want to fake facter
> > info to process templates and ship them via scp to my nodes.  
> > Is it possible?
> > Strategies?
>
> I think puppet just uses the erb program to process its templates
> so you should just be able to use that directly, I would expect.
>
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> Russell Howe
> rh...@moonfruit.com
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> Sent: 04 May 2011 16:07
> To: Puppet Users
> Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: templates on puppetmaster, 
> shipped via scp to clients
> 
> Thanks Russell and Felix!  That makes plenty of sense - the 
> puppet client can do all the manifest and template processing 
> that puppetmaster can do, plus it has access to facter facts.
I mean you don''t even necessarily need the puppet client.

If you can pass the facter facts into erb you should be able to
process the templates directly I think.

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rhowe@moonfruit.com

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Long delay in replying - how would I get the facter facts to the
puppet master in order to process the erb?  Any cool node classifier i
might use? Scp a yaml file from the node to the puppet master?  How
would I process the yaml file and the erb once there?  Any tools for
that?

Thanks for the suggestions so far..

-judd


On May 4, 11:24 am, Russell Howe <rh...@moonfruit.com>
wrote:
> > Sent: 04 May 2011 16:07
> > To: Puppet Users
> > Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: templates on puppetmaster,
> > shipped via scp to clients
>
> > Thanks Russell and Felix!  That makes plenty of sense - the
> > puppet client can do all the manifest and template processing
> > that puppetmaster can do, plus it has access to facter facts.
>
> I mean you don''t even necessarily need the puppet client.
>
> If you can pass the facter facts into erb you should be able to
> process the templates directly I think.
>
> --
> Russell Howe
> rh...@moonfruit.com
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