Puppet users - Nov 2013 - Dynamic Environments, r10k, gitolite and Non-environment Puppet Config

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been dealt with before, but I haven''t managed to
find
an answer yet.

I have a working "dynamic environments" setup:

* A gitolite repository (on a dedicated host) with multiple branches - one 
for each environment.
* I use r10k ro deploy the environments on the master to 
$confdir/environments/$::environment.

This all works *really* well, but I would also like to get the rest of the 
puppet configuration under version control (i.e. puppet.conf, hiera.yaml 
etc.). It''s no problem to put the files in a repo, but I''m
stuck on finding
a way to deploy them.

I tried using puppetlabs/vcsrepo, but it refuses to deploy files to a 
directory that isn''t a repository.

So I tried blowing away $confdir, then cloning it from the repo, then 
running r10k to populate the environments subdirectory. This looked ok, but 
puppet agent runs died horribly, reporting internal server errors ("Web 
application could not be started"). I guess this may be a file permissions 
issue, but it definitely made me think I''m going about this the wrong
way.

Has anyone else with a similar setup managed to solve this problem? Is it a 
simple matter of moving the confdir somewhere else, or is allowing puppet 
to manage its own config simply a Bad Idea?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Simon.

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Turns out there was a very simple solution to this: Create a new modules 
for the files, and deploy via r10k as part of the default environment.

Puppet Master manage thyself...

Simon.


On Friday, 1 November 2013 11:51:31 UTC, Simon Young
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies if this has been dealt with before, but I haven''t
managed to
> find an answer yet.
>
> I have a working "dynamic environments" setup:
>
> * A gitolite repository (on a dedicated host) with multiple branches - one 
> for each environment.
> * I use r10k ro deploy the environments on the master to 
> $confdir/environments/$::environment.
>
> This all works *really* well, but I would also like to get the rest of the 
> puppet configuration under version control (i.e. puppet.conf, hiera.yaml 
> etc.). It''s no problem to put the files in a repo, but
I''m stuck on finding
> a way to deploy them.
>
> I tried using puppetlabs/vcsrepo, but it refuses to deploy files to a 
> directory that isn''t a repository.
>
> So I tried blowing away $confdir, then cloning it from the repo, then 
> running r10k to populate the environments subdirectory. This looked ok, but
> puppet agent runs died horribly, reporting internal server errors
("Web
> application could not be started"). I guess this may be a file
permissions
> issue, but it definitely made me think I''m going about this the
wrong way.
>
> Has anyone else with a similar setup managed to solve this problem? Is it 
> a simple matter of moving the confdir somewhere else, or is allowing puppet
> to manage its own config simply a Bad Idea?
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon.
>
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