Puppet users - Mar 2012 - Automatic Puppet deployment over a cluster

Hi All,
I am very new to Puppet. Need some help regarding following.

Lets say we have a cluster of 20 machines which i want to manage
through Puppet.

Do I need to deploy Puppet itself manually on each machine?
OR
Is there a way that i install Puppet Master and ask it to deploy the
puppet on remaining 19 machines automatically?
OR
Is there any other way to deploy puppet itself automatically on all
the machines in the cluster?

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,
Abhijit

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Hi,

No, puppet won''t install and configure itself.

However you can provision puppet onto your cluster at build time and configure
it at that time. We use cobbler to provision machines with the required software
and initial configuration. Foreman is another option here.

On an existing small cluster you can easily install and configure puppet via a
ssh for loop. You might even look at something like RunDeck.

You can also include configuration files inside deb or rpm packages that you
will need to create.

HTH,
Den


On 02/03/2012, at 16:27, Abhijit Shingate <abhijit.shingate@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am very new to Puppet. Need some help regarding following.
> 
> Lets say we have a cluster of 20 machines which i want to manage
> through Puppet.
> 
> Do I need to deploy Puppet itself manually on each machine?
> OR
> Is there a way that i install Puppet Master and ask it to deploy the
> puppet on remaining 19 machines automatically?
> OR
> Is there any other way to deploy puppet itself automatically on all
> the machines in the cluster?
> 
> Any help will be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Abhijit
> 
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Thanks a lot  Den!!
I will check those tools!!.

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Denmat <tu2bgone@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No, puppet won''t install and configure itself.
>
> However you can provision puppet onto your cluster at build time and
> configure it at that time. We use cobbler to provision machines with the
> required software and initial configuration. Foreman is another option
here.
>
> On an existing small cluster you can easily install and configure puppet
> via a ssh for loop. You might even look at something like RunDeck.
>
> You can also include configuration files inside deb or rpm packages that
> you will need to create.
>
> HTH,
> Den
>
>
> On 02/03/2012, at 16:27, Abhijit Shingate
<abhijit.shingate@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I am very new to Puppet. Need some help regarding following.
> >
> > Lets say we have a cluster of 20 machines which i want to manage
> > through Puppet.
> >
> > Do I need to deploy Puppet itself manually on each machine?
> > OR
> > Is there a way that i install Puppet Master and ask it to deploy the
> > puppet on remaining 19 machines automatically?
> > OR
> > Is there any other way to deploy puppet itself automatically on all
> > the machines in the cluster?
> >
> > Any help will be very much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Abhijit
> >
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