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I finally got my cfengine configs all objectified and separated into service-based configurations. But there are still many things that cfe can''t or won''t do very well, so I''m looking for a replacement. What about puppet? I am looking for something that I can use to manage services and applications, not hosts and files. It seems like puppet may have inherited some of

Hi there, I''m facing a problem that I think it''s common enough to be solved directly by puppet or at least have a best practice recommended: building a config file from snippets. I''m thinking for example about a dns zone and hosts inside that zone, ldap server and ldap databases, samba server and samba shares, a firewall config and firewall rules,... The first part of

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear list! In an effort to get feedback and spread the word, here follows the second article about possibilities to structure manifests. These Design Patterns are more general than the typical Puppet Recipie and will receive a own page on the wiki when I collect enough[1] material. To the meat: humane class names with namespaces Class names

Hi, I am running an environment with 15 FreeBSD servers on which I want to maintain ports, rc.conf settings, and assorted configuration in /usr/local/etc/. Looked around the existing Puppet docs, I got a puppetmaster and a test client to work and install a package as specified in the site manifest. This is very basic but awesome! I want to create a puppet FreeBSD HowTo that addresses a

I have a lot of this going on: -- class lighttpd { import "lighttpd.pp" } class mysql { import "mysql.pp" } class nagios { import "nagios.pp" } class netdisco { import "netdisco.pp" } class nfs_server { import "nfs.pp"} class openldap { import "openldap.pp" } -- But my client is trying to realize all of these, even though I

I''m getting certificate errors when I attempt to run puppetd on the puppetmaster. As near as I can tell, this is because I''m using the same puppet.conf for both puppetd and puppetmasterd; but puppetmaster runs as user "puppet" and puppetd runs as user "root", yet both expect the certificates to be readable and chmod 600. I tried telling puppetd to use

I recently had a working puppet server serving around 4-5 clients. One of the clients needed to be re-built and now only that client cannot connect. puppetca --clean hostname did not work So here is what I did on both the server/client I removed /var/lib/puppet/* Then I restarted the server via puppetmasterd --mkusers --verbose I then connect in via the client with /usr/bin/ruby

I''d like to keep some pretty granular class definitions in ldap; but I''m not sure what is the best way to turn that into a puppet manifest. Is anybody else doing something like this? For instance, a samba server might have the following classes defined (in ldap): samba, samba-bdc, samba-file-shares, samba-build-shares, etc... And I would like to do something like this: -- class

i was looking at the simple text recipes wiki: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/SimpleTextRecipes and based on that wrote something that can ensure a certain variable in a config file is set to a specific value, using a specific delimiter as requested (defaults to a space). this seems to work great at managing all sorts of unix and mac config files (sshd_config, hostconfig on macs).

Hi, In our dev/int environemnts, our user base wants to be able to change managed files at will during the day but be notified via email of changes that happen. At night they want the files replaced to their known good state if there were changed. I tried to do this with a custom function that wraps two file types, one that just watches checksum, the other that does a reset of content with a

I just drudged through a bit of the archives and see a FreeBSD bits floating in there that are of some value, but aren''t on the wiki. I posted a few bits on the wiki regarding some FreeBSD cobbling that I''ve done recently and hope that folk find it of use (and start posting their useful bits there as well). http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetFreeBSD The

We are using the free VMware Server on CentOS 4. Almost all of our VMs are CentOS 4 as well. We have 7 VMware hosts with about 40 total virtual machines. It's been a very successful architecture for us. I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of root (and other local account) passwords in a virtual sprawl environment (or a physical environment with lots of hosts).

Hi all, It looks like I''ll be in Seattle on Sunday, September 16th through Tuesday the 18th, and I''d like to have Puppet Meetup either Sunday or Monday night. On Adam''s recommendation, I''ll be staying at the Queen Anne Inn, so something near there would be best. Hopefully Adam or Blake can do the actual organization. :) Any takers? -- What is

I can''t seem to find anyplace that list the facts that I can us in my puppet scripts; can somebody please point me in the right direction? -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--

After some through I have decided that I don''t want to keep all my configuration variables in LDAP; too many variables and the variables are too specific to manage efficiently. What I want to keep in ldap are some general class definitions, like samba-bdc, and samba-dev-shares, etc. So I build a manifest like the one below; but there are a few problems. First, I can''t be sure

Anyone ever implimented cfengine on 4.x ? I am just looking for background and if there are any traps to fall into? thanks

file. I don''t know why it will work for other hosts but these steps do not work for this.. there are no extra outputs from using --debug On 4/9/07, Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 4/9/07, Mike Zupan <hijinks at gmail.com> wrote: > > I recently had a working puppet server serving around 4-5 clients. One > of > > the clients needed to

Greetings, Our environment consists of about 600 Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and soon 6 servers. We use cfengine 2 currently, but plan on migrating to puppet. Right now, we have our root-owned cfengine client running every 15 minutes from cron contacting a single cfservd server. Additionally, our employees start their own cfengine and puppet instances on on some servers running under

Hi folks, I''m working on building up a puppet infrastructure, and I''m having the darndest time putting it all together. I''ve read through as many of the docs as I can find. I''ve read the best practices guide. And I''m still not grokking how to do what I want to do in puppet. I''ve spend enough time with cfengine that I''m sure

Hello, I''ve recently begun looking at Puppet as an alternative to Cfengine and I have a couple of questions. 1) Besides the information posted on the Puppet website, are there any critical differences between Puppet and Cfengine? 2) Does Puppet allow for client-specific file text manipulation. For instance, in Cfengine I can add a line of text to a file if the line doesn''t