Re: [Puppet Users] Re: CentOS 5 packages in EPEL are outdated ?

Peter Bukowinski
Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:48:08 -0000

On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Michael Stahnke wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
wrote:
>> Julien C. wrote:
>>>
>>> The dashboard integration part. I ended up using yup.puppetlabs.com
and it
>>> works fine :-)
>>
>>
>> Good to know.  I wonder if the dashboard packages should require puppet
>>> 2.7.x ?
>>
> You should be able to use a 2.6.x agent and have it report to
> Dashboard.  Our Puppet Enterprise 1.0 - 1.2 did just that. (As did my
> deployments of Puppet before I came to Puppet Labs).   The version of
> dashboard hasn''t changed much since 1.2.0, it''s been
mainly some
> eye-candy and bug fixes.

Indeed. I was running 2.6.x agents with Dashboard 1.2.3 until just last week
when I upgraded to 2.7.11. Zero issues.

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Peter M. Bukowinski
Sr. Systems Engineer
Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI