[Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard
Hi All, I have somehow managed to configure the puppet dashboard, but it is not displaying the nodes and the classes in the dashboard. It is completely empty. Any one has any idea of configuring puppet dashboard so that it displays all the nodes, classes, and reports/ I am newbie so please explain in a little brief. Regards Niraj K. -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Dashboard
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:27 AM, niraj niraj8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have somehow managed to configure the puppet dashboard, but it is not displaying the nodes and the classes in the dashboard. It is completely empty. Any one has any idea of configuring puppet dashboard so that it displays all the nodes, classes, and reports/ I am newbie so please explain in a little brief. Hi Niraj, Nodes won't show up until the puppet agent has finished a complete catalog run and submitted their report to the Puppet Master. If you've run puppet agent on your nodes and they're still not showing up, it might be that the agent is not submitting a report to the master. A common overlooked step is to set report = true in puppet.conf on all of the agents. Hope this helps, -Jeff -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Beginners: New list suggestion?
I just started using puppet about 4 months ago and I have to say, it was a lot to take in. I read through the documentation, downloaded the VM to play with, etc. What I found was the documentation was almost overwhelming. Part of the problem was I didn't know what I wanted to know. After having gotten used to puppet, I don't think the current documentation is in need of review - it is exactly what I need and use now. But for a beginner, it was difficult to stay on the learning curve, even the getting started section seemed to be tons of information. Luckily I had expert puppet users helping me but I couldn't imagine trying to learn this without someone to bounce silly questions off of. What I think could help beginners the most would be maybe an example network where a small network with a master and several clients are set up and you can see all the files and how they interact. Essentially have a description of what the different clients do (apache, dhcp, ntp, database, etc) and then have the folder structure of the manifests available to look at. The reason I bring this up was because I was reading the Learning Puppet material and thinking to myself, Ok, I get that but *how* should I do this? The hardest part I think for a beginner is making the leap from understanding the concepts to how those concepts are commonly executed in real world manifests. I think a simple demo network would be great. Just my thoughts having just come from the beginners camp. On Friday, March 30, 2012 3:00:54 PM UTC-5, Mister IT Guru wrote: Good Evening Guys, Let me start by saying that I really admire how far puppet has come in the last year or so, with the launch of the Enterprise version, Puppet Forge and the other innovations from within Puppet Labs, and in particular the community participation. I love the mailing list, even though I've been lurking for over a year. It's this inner shame that compels me to raise this issue. I apologise if this is not the place to mention this, but hey, you've already got this far, so keep reading! I get stage fright looking at some of the code fragments that people post to the list and then say This is how far I've got and I'm trying to do X where X is something pretty complex/unique doesn't quite seem like best practice or something that you'll find on a general use linux box. While I have no problem or even issue with this, the problem I find is that when I tell my admin geek friends about puppet, they go to google and switch off when they see what they view as buckets of work to just get started. In a nutshell the perception and feedback I get and I feel this myself, is that the competency level of those whose regularly participate in this list, and in other internet forums may just be a bit too good. I feel as if puppet is lacking a sort of nursery area. After all, everyone here is already a 'professional' or so we like to think! Would it be a good idea to have a puppet beginners list, where people can post dumb questions, and maybe have some patient people posting links to blog entries, you tube videos (something which I noticed is lacking for puppet, again making it hard for me to evangelise about it, to even get clients to look at it), and get up to speed with you guys. I would like a Puppet Nursery - Or failing that, can we get a puppet advance list? :) I'm just saying - It worked for a different project, that's part of how ubuntu started to take over the world, it just became accessible to the casual user. Well, there are a bucket load of causal professional linux admins, who I fear may dismiss taking up puppet because they just can't get the time together to learn or keep up with those who puppet 24/7 It's just an observation, with a request thrown in - If I annoyed you, upset you, hurt your ego or made you feel bad in any way, I'm sorry. If you wish to take it up with me personally, no problem, have your people call my people, and we'll set up the meet - I'm a big guy so bring backup! (just kidding, love peace and all that!) - I'm hoping to stimulate some conversation and debate - how can puppet be one of the first thoughts in the mind of someone who wants to manage from a 2 to 2 thousands machines? - Reach a critical mass amount casual users? Worked for Facebook, Twitter - not so much for Nokia but you get the point. SO! Techie Admin Genius People!! Let's Debate On Friday, March 30, 2012 3:00:54 PM UTC-5, Mister IT Guru wrote: Good Evening Guys, Let me start by saying that I really admire how far puppet has come in the last year or so, with the launch of the Enterprise version, Puppet Forge and the other innovations from within Puppet Labs, and in particular the community participation. I love the mailing list, even though I've been lurking for over a year. It's this inner shame that compels me to raise this issue. I apologise if this is not the place to
Re: [Puppet Users] change host file depending on location
Depending on how complex the hosts file needs to be, what LenR may be best
or I have sometimes also approached this kind of issue by using
parameterized classes can work well too. You can use a define classname
($variables_to_pass_to_template) { } and then you don't have to work with
ERB-type conditionals. Its a matter of preference in my opinion. So it
would do something like this:
define location-based-hosts ($my_specific_hosts) {
file { etc/hosts:
ensure = present,
content = template(puppet:///hosts/hosts_template.erb),
}
}
Then call it with:
hosts::location-based-hosts { us-west:
my_specific_hosts = list of the important host entries,
}
And finally, in the hosts_template.erb:
127.0.0.1 localhost
%= my_specific_hosts %
The syntax should be good but I may have missed something. Again its all
matter of preference but I have all my templates set up this way, that way
my templates look as close to the end file as possible and all the magic
happens in my manifests.
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[Puppet Users] Unable to make Puppet Agent trust Puppet Master server certificate with own CA
Hello, I'm trying to set up a puppet master server with a server certificate from my own organisation (but still use Puppet's own CA for the client certificates). On the puppet master server, the certificate was put in /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs (and the private key in the private_keys directory), with the right FQDN host name. The server configuration seems to work fine, since openssl s_client -connect puppetmaster.example.com:8140 shows that certificate indeed. On the client side, I've changed certs/ca.pem to use my own CA. OpenSSL verifies it well with: openssl s_client -CAfile ...path-to/ssl/certs/ca.pem -connect puppetmaster.example.com:8140 However, puppet agent --test --server puppetmaster.example.com fails with: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed. (The FQDNs/Common Names are correct, the clocks are fine, and when I revert to the Puppet CA server certificate, it works too.) Where are the trust anchors for the puppet agent meant to be configured if it's not in certs/ca.pem? Best wishes, Bruno. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/hrYRp0aGXcsJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
[Puppet Users] Unknown function hiera
Hi there,
for some reason I can't use hiera functions in my manifests.
Here are the relevant config files:
cat /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml
:hierarchy:
- %{environment}
- common
:backends:
- yaml
- puppet
:yaml:
:datadir: '/etc/puppet/environments/%{environment}/hieradata'
:puppet:
:datasource: data
cat environments/dev/hieradata/dev.yaml
---
workers : - '10.125.127.88'
cat environments/dev/modules/intra3/manifests/wsp.pp
class intra3::wsp {
#$workers = [ '12.3.4.5' ]
#$workers = $intra3::data::workers
$workers = hiera('workers')
wsp::cfg { tc6_foobar:
remove = false,
vhostname = 'test-foobar',
worker = $workers,
portrange = 121,
prodlevel = 7,
wwwdir = '/www/foobar.enbw.net',
}
pluginsync is enabled on master and client.
The client picks up changes in the hiera module /lib:
touch dev/modules/hiera/lib/bla.rb
results in:
notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run
info: Retrieving plugin
notice: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/bla.rb]/ensure: defined content as
'{md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e'
info: Loading downloaded plugin /var/lib/puppet/lib/bla.rb
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
Unknown function hiera at
/etc/puppet/environments/dev/modules/intra3/manifests/wsp.pp:5 on node
puppet-2.7.12
gem list hiera
hiera (0.3.0)
hiera-puppet (0.3.0)
Any ideas?
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Re: [Puppet Users] Unknown function hiera
Hi Andreas,
In my believe that message is from your puppetmaster unable to compile
the manifest because the hiera function is not present on the master.
If you install hiera gem, the functions are not copied to your puppet
functions dir.
I would recommend checking your gem path on the puppetmaster and
confirm the files are present.
gem env
...
- GEM PATHS:
- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
- /root/.gem/ruby/1.8
...
ls /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/*hier*
Should list: -
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_array.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_include.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_hash.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera.rb
On my setup I was able to fix this my manually copying the file to the
puppet libdir:
# copy libs from hiera to puppet
cp /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hiera-puppet-0.3.0/lib/puppet/parser/functions/*
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions
# restart your puppetmaster - if running behind passenger
For me restarting apache was enough
/etc/init.d/apache restart
---
Kind regards,
Martin Willemsma
2012/4/4 Andreas Paul xorp...@googlemail.com:
Hi there,
for some reason I can't use hiera functions in my manifests.
Here are the relevant config files:
cat /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml
:hierarchy:
- %{environment}
- common
:backends:
- yaml
- puppet
:yaml:
:datadir: '/etc/puppet/environments/%{environment}/hieradata'
:puppet:
:datasource: data
cat environments/dev/hieradata/dev.yaml
---
workers : - '10.125.127.88'
cat environments/dev/modules/intra3/manifests/wsp.pp
class intra3::wsp {
#$workers = [ '12.3.4.5' ]
#$workers = $intra3::data::workers
$workers = hiera('workers')
wsp::cfg { tc6_foobar:
remove = false,
vhostname = 'test-foobar',
worker = $workers,
portrange = 121,
prodlevel = 7,
wwwdir = '/www/foobar.enbw.net',
}
pluginsync is enabled on master and client.
The client picks up changes in the hiera module /lib:
touch dev/modules/hiera/lib/bla.rb
results in:
notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run
info: Retrieving plugin
notice: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/bla.rb]/ensure: defined content as
'{md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e'
info: Loading downloaded plugin /var/lib/puppet/lib/bla.rb
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
Unknown function hiera at
/etc/puppet/environments/dev/modules/intra3/manifests/wsp.pp:5 on node
puppet-2.7.12
gem list hiera
hiera (0.3.0)
hiera-puppet (0.3.0)
Any ideas?
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[Puppet Users] using content in file as input variables to a class/def?
Here is the setup Clients are all under /usr/home/ftp/$client Internal Production is /usr/home/$internaluser I need to make slinks for every client folder under every Internal Production ie: ln -s /usr/home/ftp/$client /usr/home/$internaluser/$client Is there a way to do this from a list with in two files ( one for client name and the other for internal user names)? where the list format would be like : username, uid -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/giGi-U4MQKEJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Re: [Puppet Users] Unknown function hiera
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Martin Willemsma mwillem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andreas, In my believe that message is from your puppetmaster unable to compile the manifest because the hiera function is not present on the master. If you install hiera gem, the functions are not copied to your puppet functions dir. That's correct. Per https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet: For the moment the Gem install will place the Puppet Parser Function where Puppet cannot find it, you should copy it out and distribute it to your master using Pluginsync or something similar I would recommend checking your gem path on the puppetmaster and confirm the files are present. gem env ... - GEM PATHS: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - /root/.gem/ruby/1.8 ... ls /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/*hier* Should list: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_array.rb /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_include.rb /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_hash.rb /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera.rb On my setup I was able to fix this my manually copying the file to the puppet libdir: # copy libs from hiera to puppet cp /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hiera-puppet-0.3.0/lib/puppet/parser/functions/* /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions However, I would recommend using puppet module path and puppet pluginsync rather than copying the files to puppet's gem path. If your module path is /etc/puppet/modules, the following command should get the function in a location where puppet can find and compile: ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hiera-puppet-0.3.0 /etc/puppet/modules/hiera-puppet If you want to check out the lastest version of hiera: git clone git://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet.git /etc/puppet/modules/hiera-puppet HTH, Nan -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Re: [Puppet Users] Unknown function hiera
FWIW I've submitted this patch today to: - include the gem inside the manifest - load the correct loadpaths - enable relocatable hiera_configdir and hiera_yaml_datasource https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet/pull/20 This makes it much easier to have things configured until all the hiera is part of Telly. On 04/04/12 18:17, Nan Liu wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Martin Willemsmamwillem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andreas, In my believe that message is from your puppetmaster unable to compile the manifest because the hiera function is not present on the master. If you install hiera gem, the functions are not copied to your puppet functions dir. That's correct. Per https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet: For the moment the Gem install will place the Puppet Parser Function where Puppet cannot find it, you should copy it out and distribute it to your master using Pluginsync or something similar I would recommend checking your gem path on the puppetmaster and confirm the files are present. gem env ... - GEM PATHS: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8 - /root/.gem/ruby/1.8 ... ls /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/*hier* Should list: - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_array.rb /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_include.rb /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera_hash.rb /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera.rb On my setup I was able to fix this my manually copying the file to the puppet libdir: # copy libs from hiera to puppet cp /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hiera-puppet-0.3.0/lib/puppet/parser/functions/* /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/parser/functions However, I would recommend using puppet module path and puppet pluginsync rather than copying the files to puppet's gem path. If your module path is /etc/puppet/modules, the following command should get the function in a location where puppet can find and compile: ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hiera-puppet-0.3.0 /etc/puppet/modules/hiera-puppet If you want to check out the lastest version of hiera: git clone git://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet.git /etc/puppet/modules/hiera-puppet HTH, Nan -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
[Puppet Users] Re: Could not load confine test 'operatingsystem': cannot load such file -- puppet/provider/confine/operatingsystem
Hi, Thanks for everyone's help. Just an update to this issue. The displayed error was indeed harmless as noted on this thread. The actual error we found in Apache's error_log was: Exception LoadError in PhusionPassenger::Rack::ApplicationSpawner (cannot load such file -- rack) We think we were getting this because Passenger wasn't finding Bundler's Gemfile in spite of being in the bundle. We fixed it by changing the DocumentRoot from /etc/puppet/rack/public to /etc/puppet/public (since /etc/puppet is where the Gemfile is). Thanks again, -LTH On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:07:58 PM UTC-4, lth wrote: Hello, I'm having some trouble. I keep getting the following warnings when trying to run: $ puppet master --no-daemonize /usr/local/build/puppet-bundle/vendor/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/ puppet-2.7.12/lib/puppet/external/pson/pure.rb:7:in `module:PSON': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead. Could not load confine test 'operatingsystem': cannot load such file -- puppet/provider/confine/operatingsystem [repeats a number of times] $ ruby -v ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30) [x86_64-linux] $ which ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga) Thanks in advance. -LTH -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/HRsFSJ-2PhwJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Beginners: New list suggestion?
On 2 Apr 2012, at 10:12, Craig Dunn wrote: Would it be a good idea to have a puppet beginners list, where people can post dumb questions, and maybe have some patient people posting links [snip] Without wanting to pigeon hole or stereotype anyone, my experience from the IRC channel in particular is that dumb questions that get asked often show that the poster has not read through the online documentation and has jumped straight into the community support channels instead. No-one minds helping a struggling beginner, but the old him who helps himself saying applies and I think for most people, if they genuinely read the excellent language guide properly they would answer the majority of beginner questions on their own. Some people take offense when told on IRC to RTFM, or given an anchor link to the docs in response to a question, but it simply is the best source of information to their issues. Providing a beginners mailing list IMO would only encourage people to bypass the docs even more. 2p/w :) Craig -- Craig Dunn | http://www.craigdunn.org Yahoo/Skype: craigrdunn | Twitter: @crayfishX Good Evening Craig, and thanks for your reply! I appreciate your comments, but having reflected more on the point Providing a beginners mailing list IMO would only encourage people to bypass the docs even more While this may be true, the number of people searching, finding links via twitter, or having a casual intrest, is only going to go up. And the docs are written from the perspective of a technical manual. Docs are great and I applaud the effort that goes into it. But it's still just documentation. When your in school, college, university, insert place of education here, a massive text book is not dropped in your lap on day one, and then your sent off into the world. Every FOSS project pretty much comes with documentation these days - yet we have support forums. The same for a lot of technical products that are sold in our shops, but everyone has support lines. If documentation worked, most of us will be out of work. I think the community aspect is the key. -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Beginners: New list suggestion?
+1 For Dens idea. I use the stack exchange and a few related linked sites, and it's awesome! Google it, sign up, find some puppet questions that have been posted there. You guys might be able to help :) On 3 Apr 2012, at 06:53, Denmat wrote: How about a 'serverfault' or 'stackoverflow' or the like site? One of the issues I find is that previous answers are lost in mail lists and hard to search for. IRC isn't much help for searching previous answers either. -1 for separate lists. Den On 03/04/2012, at 14:30, Michael Stahnke stah...@puppetlabs.com wrote: Hey, we've been having some mailing list discussion on and off inside of Puppet Labs too. Obviously we have a large community that we are trying to appeal to, and we keep doing our best to create the experience for the user-base. Breaking the users list into two lists has its pros and cons. Pros: * Less code fragments in emails * Advanced users not bogged down with new user questions Cons: * Fragmentation of the user-base * Who will monitor/answer questions on a new user list? * New people may not learn from more experienced people, because the more experienced users may not subscribe to the new-users list What I really think we need, is a way to provide knowledge to new users in an efficient (and non fragmented) way. In the past we had a horrible problem with documentation all over the place, wiki issues, blogs from everybody and their brother, etc. Today, we have narrowed those problems with the Learning Puppet series. (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/), and lots of other documentation improvements on docs.puppetlabs.com. The points about FAQ make complete sense. We'd like to address this with proper documentation and some other online presence that will be rolled out in the in the next quarter or so. As an interrum, could we have a wiki page where we place questions that get asked frequently and have no (or incomplete) associated documentation? http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Frequent_Questions_Without_Answers We also hope that IRC is helpful and remains helpful. I don't often see RTFM comments coming out in #puppet. When I do, it's quite often because their exact question was already answered, with citations, and the user still didn't read it. Also in this thread somebody mentioned helping those willing to help themselves. That's a fair statement, but we really want to make this an accepting community to make everybody better at their workloads with Puppet. I hope I've attempted to answer some of the concerns. I am totally willing to revisit this in 90 days or so if the community thinks we should be handling this differently. This is also by no means designed to close this discussion, so please weigh in if you have opinions. Michael Stahnke Community Manager On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Mister IT Guru misteritg...@gmx.com wrote: Good Evening Guys, Let me start by saying that I really admire how far puppet has come in the last year or so, with the launch of the Enterprise version, Puppet Forge and the other innovations from within Puppet Labs, and in particular the community participation. I love the mailing list, even though I've been lurking for over a year. It's this inner shame that compels me to raise this issue. I apologise if this is not the place to mention this, but hey, you've already got this far, so keep reading! I get stage fright looking at some of the code fragments that people post to the list and then say This is how far I've got and I'm trying to do X where X is something pretty complex/unique doesn't quite seem like best practice or something that you'll find on a general use linux box. While I have no problem or even issue with this, the problem I find is that when I tell my admin geek friends about puppet, they go to google and switch off when they see what they view as buckets of work to just get started. We have a lot of Puppet users on Mac, BSD, and now Windows too, so it's not just Linux. In a nutshell the perception and feedback I get and I feel this myself, is that the competency level of those whose regularly participate in this list, and in other internet forums may just be a bit too good. I feel as if puppet is lacking a sort of nursery area. After all, everyone here is already a 'professional' or so we like to think! Would it be a good idea to have a puppet beginners list, where people can post dumb questions, and maybe have some patient people posting links to blog entries, you tube videos (something which I noticed is lacking for puppet, again making it hard for me to evangelise about it, to even get clients to look at it), and get up to speed with you guys. I would like a Puppet Nursery - Or failing that, can we get a puppet advance list? :) I'm just saying - It worked for a different project, that's part of how ubuntu started
Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Beginners: New list suggestion?
Thanks for the replies from all the puppet lab guys, and the members of this list. It really brighten my day to read all the responses. I've learnt that maybe I'm not so stupid after all! Ah yes, and that a second list is a no no!! (It wasn't my best suggestion, but the community helped me see the light) I am really looking forward to Integrated Platform Team Puppet are currently working on. It goes without saying that the more content that gets gobbled up by google and indexed, the more lonely newbies that will be rescued by that search bar. I do have a more confidence puppet. I hope I didn't panic any of Team Puppet, you guys are doing a great job, honestly, I've had my butt pulled out the fire a good few times because of my basic of the most basic puppet setup, so I'm a fan On 3 Apr 2012, at 21:13, Nigel Kersten wrote: We do want to be running this, primarily because we want to provide an integrated platform that includes a bit more than just the QA site itself. We'd like to be able to integrate profiles across the Forge, a QA site and even the bug tracker. It would be great if you were on a QA site, asking questions about developing modules, and to be able to see that the person answering your question has published several awesome Puppet modules that are really popular. Vice versa, it would be great to be able to look at a module and see that the author is a highly engaged member of the community. So all in all, we do want to provide this as a service by us, and it's difficult to get that level of integration with StackExchange. I would like to point out that we've got a growing ServerFault community under the 'puppet' tag, and there are some great people answering Puppet questions there. This is clearly an even more pressing need than we'd been thinking, so we're going to try and accelerate this. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
[Puppet Users] fqdn changes on client and connection to master fails
I have a situation where some of my puppet client machines fqdn's change. After this happens they fail to connect to the puppet master due to an untrusted certificate. It looks like manually setting a certname in the client puppet.conf file will work around this issue of the certname relying on the fqdn of the machine. Is this correct? Are there any gotcha's that I should be aware of before setting the certname setting in the client puppet.conf? (I realize I'll have to resign and certs where the newly set certname is different than the current certname.) Thanks, -- Romeo -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
Re: [Puppet Users] change host file depending on location
We run Foreman, so I never think of parameterized classes :-)
Another thing we do in some places is concatenated templates, there is a
common section and different appendages.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:35 AM, myeazel matthew.yea...@gmail.com wrote:
Depending on how complex the hosts file needs to be, what LenR may be best
or I have sometimes also approached this kind of issue by using
parameterized classes can work well too. You can use a define classname
($variables_to_pass_to_template) { } and then you don't have to work with
ERB-type conditionals. Its a matter of preference in my opinion. So it
would do something like this:
define location-based-hosts ($my_specific_hosts) {
file { etc/hosts:
ensure = present,
content = template(puppet:///hosts/hosts_template.erb),
}
}
Then call it with:
hosts::location-based-hosts { us-west:
my_specific_hosts = list of the important host entries,
}
And finally, in the hosts_template.erb:
127.0.0.1 localhost
%= my_specific_hosts %
The syntax should be good but I may have missed something. Again its all
matter of preference but I have all my templates set up this way, that way
my templates look as close to the end file as possible and all the magic
happens in my manifests.
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Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Beginners: New list suggestion?
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Mister IT Guru misteritg...@gmx.com wrote: Thanks for the replies from all the puppet lab guys, and the members of this list. It really brighten my day to read all the responses. I've learnt that maybe I'm not so stupid after all! Ah yes, and that a second list is a no no!! (It wasn't my best suggestion, but the community helped me see the light) I am really looking forward to Integrated Platform Team Puppet are currently working on. It goes without saying that the more content that gets gobbled up by google and indexed, the more lonely newbies that will be rescued by that search bar. I do have a more confidence puppet. I hope I didn't panic any of Team Puppet, you guys are doing a great job, honestly, I've had my butt pulled out the fire a good few times because of my basic of the most basic puppet setup, so I'm a fan No apologies necessary at all, and certainly no panic :) We also love hearing stories about Puppet pulling butts out of fires :) On 3 Apr 2012, at 21:13, Nigel Kersten wrote: We do want to be running this, primarily because we want to provide an integrated platform that includes a bit more than just the QA site itself. We'd like to be able to integrate profiles across the Forge, a QA site and even the bug tracker. It would be great if you were on a QA site, asking questions about developing modules, and to be able to see that the person answering your question has published several awesome Puppet modules that are really popular. Vice versa, it would be great to be able to look at a module and see that the author is a highly engaged member of the community. So all in all, we do want to provide this as a service by us, and it's difficult to get that level of integration with StackExchange. I would like to point out that we've got a growing ServerFault community under the 'puppet' tag, and there are some great people answering Puppet questions there. This is clearly an even more pressing need than we'd been thinking, so we're going to try and accelerate this. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
[Puppet Users] openstack-puppet mailing list
Hi all, I have been working to create a community around a set of modules for configuring and deploying OpenStack. For folks who are interested in our openstack efforts, I created a separate mailing list. http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-openstack I plan to be pretty verbose about the code as it progresses and I didn't want to flood the puppet users group with openstack specific messages. - Dan -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
