Hi all - I''m pretty new to puppet and have started diving into the deep end - very excited to ditch crappy scripts for the manifest concept! I have a couple of questions around windows support. I followed the windows support wiki entry to the bitter end and then realized there''s no agent support. If I understand correctly, agents are installed on the machines you want to manage and the master server pushes out details to that agent about how that agent should configure that server. If there''s currently no agent support, is there any point? The "Platforms we support" page for puppet claims Windows support - leaving me very confused. I also have found this ticket: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8268 That also suggests there''s no agent support. PS - love what I''m seeing but it''d be HUGE if Windows was treated as a first class citizen. -- 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.
I think if you look through the mail list for the past 6 weeks, you''ll see several postings about the progress that they have made towards a Windows client. I gather that this is on the high priority agenda. Craig On Aug 10, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Maven User wrote:> Hi all - > > I''m pretty new to puppet and have started diving into the deep end - > very excited to ditch crappy scripts for the manifest concept! > > I have a couple of questions around windows support. > > I followed the windows support wiki entry to the bitter end and then > realized there''s no agent support. If I understand correctly, agents > are installed on the machines you want to manage and the master server > pushes out details to that agent about how that agent should configure > that server. > > If there''s currently no agent support, is there any point? The > "Platforms we support" page for puppet claims Windows support - > leaving me very confused. > > I also have found this ticket: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8268 > > That also suggests there''s no agent support. > > PS - love what I''m seeing but it''d be HUGE if Windows was treated as a > first class citizen. > > -- > 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. >-- Craig White ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ craig.white@ttiltd.com 1.800.869.6908 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.ttiassessments.com Need help communicating between generations at work to achieve your desired success? Let us help! -- 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.
Yeah, Windows users! The 2.6 release introduced preliminary support for Windows (limited to just managing files). http://www.puppetlabs.com/2dot6/ The ticket you found provides a good view of the work we have completed and are targeting for the release. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8268 In particular, we will be adding providers for file, exec, user, group, service, etc types. Some of these providers have already been implemented, others are actively being worked on. If you are interested in trying it out, you can download the source for facter and puppet from github (ignore the step about installing puppet and facter as gems as described in the wiki). Lets us know if you run into any issues. Josh -- "Join us for PuppetConf <http://bit.ly/puppetconfsig>, September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR." On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Craig White <craig.white@ttiltd.com> wrote:> I think if you look through the mail list for the past 6 weeks, you''ll see > several postings about the progress that they have made towards a Windows > client. I gather that this is on the high priority agenda. > > Craig > > On Aug 10, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Maven User wrote: > > > Hi all - > > > > I''m pretty new to puppet and have started diving into the deep end - > > very excited to ditch crappy scripts for the manifest concept! > > > > I have a couple of questions around windows support. > > > > I followed the windows support wiki entry to the bitter end and then > > realized there''s no agent support. If I understand correctly, agents > > are installed on the machines you want to manage and the master server > > pushes out details to that agent about how that agent should configure > > that server. > > > > If there''s currently no agent support, is there any point? The > > "Platforms we support" page for puppet claims Windows support - > > leaving me very confused. > > > > I also have found this ticket: > > > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8268 > > > > That also suggests there''s no agent support. > > > > PS - love what I''m seeing but it''d be HUGE if Windows was treated as a > > first class citizen. > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > Craig White ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ craig.white@ttiltd.com > 1.800.869.6908 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.ttiassessments.com > > Need help communicating between generations at work to achieve your desired > success? Let us help! > > -- > 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. > >-- 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.
In the simplest sense - I''d need to deploy a webapp, cycle a service (tomcat and IIS) and apply a set of changes to a bunch of configuration files. From what I can tell, the "agent" portion of puppet isn''t ready for prime time. Isn''t the "agent" the portion of puppet that runs on every server that is needed to apply changes on a given system? Thanks all for the replies!!! On Aug 10, 6:52 pm, Josh Cooper <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:> Yeah, Windows users! > > The 2.6 release introduced preliminary support for Windows (limited to just > managing files). > > http://www.puppetlabs.com/2dot6/ > > The ticket you found provides a good view of the work we have completed and > are targeting for the release. > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8268 > > In particular, we will be adding providers for file, exec, user, group, > service, etc types. Some of these providers have already been implemented, > others are actively being worked on. > > If you are interested in trying it out, you can download the source for > facter and puppet from github (ignore the step about installing puppet and > facter as gems as described in the wiki). Lets us know if you run into any > issues. > > Josh > -- > "Join us for PuppetConf <http://bit.ly/puppetconfsig>, September 22nd and > 23rd in Portland, OR." > > > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote: > > I think if you look through the mail list for the past 6 weeks, you''ll see > > several postings about the progress that they have made towards a Windows > > client. I gather that this is on the high priority agenda. > > > Craig > > > On Aug 10, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Maven User wrote: > > > > Hi all - > > > > I''m pretty new to puppet and have started diving into the deep end - > > > very excited to ditch crappy scripts for the manifest concept! > > > > I have a couple of questions around windows support. > > > > I followed the windows support wiki entry to the bitter end and then > > > realized there''s no agent support. If I understand correctly, agents > > > are installed on the machines you want to manage and the master server > > > pushes out details to that agent about how that agent should configure > > > that server. > > > > If there''s currently no agent support, is there any point? The > > > "Platforms we support" page for puppet claims Windows support - > > > leaving me very confused. > > > > I also have found this ticket: > > > >http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8268 > > > > That also suggests there''s no agent support. > > > > PS - love what I''m seeing but it''d be HUGE if Windows was treated as a > > > first class citizen. > > > > -- > > > 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. > > > -- > > Craig White ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ craig.wh...@ttiltd.com > > 1.800.869.6908 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~www.ttiassessments.com > > > Need help communicating between generations at work to achieve your desired > > success? Let us help! > > > -- > > 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.-- 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 Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Maven User <maven.2.user@gmail.com> wrote:> In the simplest sense - I''d need to deploy a webapp, cycle a service > (tomcat and IIS) and apply a set of changes to a bunch of > configuration files. > > From what I can tell, the "agent" portion of puppet isn''t ready for > prime time. >Version 2.6 of the puppet agent should be able to manage Windows file resources, though it does not support managing (start, stop, etc) services. However, when we complete Windows agent support (ticket 8268 and related subtasks), your use case should be supported. Note that 2.6 is in maintenance mode, with active development, generally speaking, occurring in 2.7 and future releases. The windows agent support described in ticket 8268 will not be available in 2.6. Josh -- Join us for PuppetConf <http://www.bit.ly/puppetconfsig>, September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR. -- 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.