similar to: Manifest organization

Hi list, Reading the thread "can a class require an other class?" it''s been mentioned that perhaps one way forward for the Puppet language is to phase out the include keyword in favour of parametrised classes. I''m thinking of my Puppet and the several levels of include chaining I use and I''m wondering how on earth that''d be possible. Maybe

I''m working on configuring a master in a lab environment, using Puppet Open Source. My master is running RHEL 6. I want to use modules to manage the master itself as much as possible, so I can use puppet to bootstrap itself as I go forward and move into production. Using puppetlabs/puppetdb to configure puppetdb, I''ve overcome most of my issues but I have two questions. 1)

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

I am finding that the puppetlabs-apache module is somehow adding 30-60 seconds onto a host''s catalog compile time when the puppetmaster has no other hosts contacting or generating catalogs. The Puppetmaster is setup to use Puppet-2.7.18 - Apache & Passenger. RIght now only 2 hosts are even configured to use this new PM, the PM itself and a Foreman host. With neither hosts

Hello Puppet Users, I need a puppet master (Ubuntu) to push the executable files to the agent (windows 7) and install those executables I believe the manifest file should be set up to push such config to the windows agent. I came up with something like this: class wireshark { exec { ''wireshark'': command =>

I know this comes up periodically, and I''ve read through the wiki (including the Best Practices page) & list archives, but still can''t quite get my head around it. I see lots of references to /modules and $MODULE_PATH, but am not sure what these refer to. Here''s a basic setup I have. Let me know if this looks correct: /etc/puppet/ |-- autosign.conf |--

Hi, I am new to the job and forum. I installed puppet and puppetmaster and set up my first dependencies acording to a manual that we have here in our company. Everything works fine and I can set up new nodes with several modules to choose from. Unfortunatley the Dashboard <http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/dashboard>gives me errors instead of starting correctley. Here the

I have these three modules with the following structure: |-- modules | |-- create_resources | | |-- LICENSE | | |-- Modulefile | | |-- README | | |-- lib | | | `-- puppet | | | `-- parser | | | `-- functions | | | `-- create_resources.rb | | |-- spec | | | |-- spec.opts | | | |-- spec_helper.rb | | | `-- unit

Hello all, Can someone please explain why there is a manifests folder in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet e.g. /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests If there is a manifests folder within each modules folder in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet e.g. /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/ntp/manifests Is this directory /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/manifests for building out your config tree''s and calling modules etc. if

Hello, First of all I am new to the Puppet technology. I am trying to get my puppet agent (windows) to reach my puppet master (Linux) server. In this tutorial: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/agent_master_basic.html It claims to test your puppet agent you need to use the ''puppet agent --test'' command. My result when I tried this is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet

Hi, My organization is going to set up puppet soon. We have thousands servers and desktops. Would WEBrick work well for this? Or should we use Passenger? Thanks, Haiyan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Hi group, im updating some modules of puppet, and i found this issue or error, that i cannot get resolved it. My puppetmaster is 2.7.1 and client 2.7.18. I used other modulo to prover apt configurations but i think this is more completed. I know that the error is something missing or my class is not present or something like that, the dependencies of the modulo are installed, stdlib and i

Hello all, I''m fairly new to puppet and in the majority a windows shop I have two questions 1.) As windows syntax is slight different than linux syntax, how do I create a new line within a bit of content, e.g. hosts file "for windows not linux" e.g. file {''c:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts'': content =>

I am trying to override variables in a class that is defined in the default node profile. I want parent class to be included in every single node, but override its variables in others. I have tried it several different ways now, and every single time the variables either become unset (undefined) or are set to the value of the first if statement. Here is my current iteration of failure.

HI all, I am currently setting up a HA devops configuration using puppet. I want to be able to run a single puppet master as the CA and the rest act as peering puppet masters. I have each puppet master running on passenger and I am proxying the SSL requests to the CA server following: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/scaling_multiple_masters.html#option-2-redirect-certificate-traffic

We use puppet with two environments: [main] and [development]. These environments have different locations for their puppet manifests and modules (see puppet.conf below). Whenever I change/update a file in the directories belonging to the “main” environment, puppetmaster notices these changes and reacts to them w/o any hiccups. In contrast to this – if I change/touch a file in a directory

I created manifest for our webserver. manifest included git clone, database creation and restore database etc.... How to order the installation and exec exactly Roni -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Hello, I am having problems with Puppet since upgrading to 3.0.0. When I call an inventory search I get a Error 400. I have used dashboard + Perl Oct 4 08:58:43 puppet01 puppet-master[7008]: Handling request: GET /production/facts_search/search?facts.lsbdistcodename.eq=lenny Oct 4 08:58:43 puppet01 puppet-master[7008]: header too long ii facter

Hi, I currently have puppet setup and backed into the dashboard and using ENC. I wish to control as much of the configuration of machines via the dashboard. However, I have a requirement to call a module/class multiple times and was wondering if this is possible? in a normal manifest I''d do this with the following: node "somenode" { somemodule::submodule {

Hi Everyone; I am getting the following error when I try to install PuppetDB. Maybe I have stale instructions?? Thanks! Bee Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid tag "::postgresql::validate_db_connection" at /etc/puppet/modules/puppetdb/manifests/server/validate_db.pp:62 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the