Puppet users - Feb 2012 - Running Puppet(Master) on port 443

On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Nan Liu wrote:
> Puppet uses REST, so you can run puppet master on 443 to work around
firewalls.
I would like to get a bit more information on this.

Is it as simple as setting all the ports in puppet.conf to 443 on master and
agent ?

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universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Dan White <ygor@comcast.net>
wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Nan Liu wrote:
>> Puppet uses REST, so you can run puppet master on 443 to work around
firewalls.
>
> I would like to get a bit more information on this.
>
> Is it as simple as setting all the ports in puppet.conf to 443 on master
and agent ?
Yes, and ensuring you don''t have anything else using 443 on the server.

Once you''ve changed it try



Mike

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On Feb 8, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Dan White <ygor@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Nan Liu wrote:
>>> Puppet uses REST, so you can run puppet master on 443 to work
around firewalls.
>> 
>> I would like to get a bit more information on this.
>> 
>> Is it as simple as setting all the ports in puppet.conf to 443 on
master and agent ?
> 
> Yes, and ensuring you don''t have anything else using 443 on the
server.
> 
> Once you''ve changed it try
Ah ha, and there is the twist.
I cannot guarantee something else would want to use that port.

Seems it would be easier to negotiate the additional holes for 8139/8140 in the
firewall

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