Puppet users - Dec 2011 - Windows

Hi,

Windows - Puppet - Documentation seems to be lacking.  I may not be
looking in the right place.  Help?


I''m starting a second effort [1] with Puppet at work.  Got the master
running, an agent (look we can change the login banner!).  A fellow
from the Windows server team wandered over.

They like the Unix side of the office because it''s a lot calmer over
here, without a lot of excited managers running around yammering about
downtime and production outages.

I explained "It''s like SMS but for Solaris.  And Linux.  Look, I
can
change the login banner on all 200 hosts by editing _a_ file ..."

He got real excited and started babbling about making sure all files
on his IIS cluster were synched up.  To be honest I''m not sure what he
was talking about (he''d been up the night before with a production
problem with IIS and was kinda punchy)  but the idea of Puppet
dropping ''a'' copy of ''a'' file to umpty-dozen
servers seemed to make
him real happy.


So what''s the deal with Puppet and Windows?  I see from this mail list
people have got it going as an agent, but I can''t find much in the way
of documentation.

Anything like a doc, a how-to, a readme out there for Puppet /
Windows?


[1] 1st effort a few years ago made it to the pilot stage (look we can
change the login banner!) then died for lack of time and management
attention.

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Hi Brian,

Puppet support on Windows has evolved considerably since you last tried. I
recommend looking at this wiki page describing how to get started, what
types are supported, and other Windows considerations:

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Windows

Josh

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Brian Dunbar
<brian.dunbar@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Windows - Puppet - Documentation seems to be lacking.  I may not be
> looking in the right place.  Help?
>
>
> I''m starting a second effort [1] with Puppet at work.  Got the
master
> running, an agent (look we can change the login banner!).  A fellow
> from the Windows server team wandered over.
>
> They like the Unix side of the office because it''s a lot calmer
over
> here, without a lot of excited managers running around yammering about
> downtime and production outages.
>
> I explained "It''s like SMS but for Solaris.  And Linux. 
Look, I can
> change the login banner on all 200 hosts by editing _a_ file ..."
>
> He got real excited and started babbling about making sure all files
> on his IIS cluster were synched up.  To be honest I''m not sure
what he
> was talking about (he''d been up the night before with a production
> problem with IIS and was kinda punchy)  but the idea of Puppet
> dropping ''a'' copy of ''a'' file to
umpty-dozen servers seemed to make
> him real happy.
>
>
> So what''s the deal with Puppet and Windows?  I see from this mail
list
> people have got it going as an agent, but I can''t find much in the
way
> of documentation.
>
> Anything like a doc, a how-to, a readme out there for Puppet /
> Windows?
>
>
> [1] 1st effort a few years ago made it to the pilot stage (look we can
> change the login banner!) then died for lack of time and management
> attention.
>
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Developer, Puppet Labs

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