Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2015-01-14 Thread Felix Frank
On 01/14/2015 09:55 AM, KEIGNAERT Mathieu wrote: Dear all, I am very new to puppet, I have been playing with puppet a long time ago, I haven't done anything recently with puppet but I try to follow it. One of my main concern with puppet and what I try to achieve is to have puppet running as

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2015-01-14 Thread KEIGNAERT Mathieu
11, 2013 4:18:38 PM Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet You should use what works best for you, of course, but like R.I., I'm not sure what you mean by not well supported. I'd estimate that Puppet non-root is not widely *used*, but that's

[Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread Klavs Klavsen
I know of several who have managed servers, but want to use Puppet to roll manage the applications they install, and whatelse they have been allowed to manage - but that will never be able to run puppet as root, since the OS is not their responsibility. Also - some of those, the managers of

[Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread Klavs Klavsen
Den fredag den 11. oktober 2013 14.12.32 UTC+2 skrev Klavs Klavsen: so it would be preferrable to be able to install root elsewhere Dooh - to install puppet elsewhere :) (ie. under /opt/puppet f.ex.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Original Message - From: James Henderson james.m.hender...@gmail.com To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:17:31 PM Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet Hello, I am the guy who Spencer is talking about. Since I am brand new to puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread jcbollinger
On Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:17:31 PM UTC-5, James Henderson wrote: Hello, I am the guy who Spencer is talking about. Since I am brand new to puppet, and puppet non-root is not well supported at this time, we have decided to go with a more script based option. You should use what

[Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread James Henderson
On Friday, October 11, 2013 9:28:44 AM UTC-4, jcbollinger wrote: On Thursday, October 10, 2013 4:17:31 PM UTC-5, James Henderson wrote: Hello, I am the guy who Spencer is talking about. Since I am brand new to puppet, and puppet non-root is not well supported at this time, we have

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Original Message - From: James Henderson james.m.hender...@gmail.com To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 4:12:21 PM Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet On Friday, October 11, 2013 9:28:44 AM UTC-4, jcbollinger wrote: On Thursday

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread Trevor Vaughan
OpenShifit is trying to abstract away a lot of the issues with this type of scenario. Unfortunately, I'm not certain of the support on non RHEL-based distros at this point but the idea is at least worth looking at. http://openshift.github.io/ On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Klavs Klavsen

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread Spencer Krum
So I've been in contact with Puppet Labs and will be doing a blog post on how to do Puppet without Root. I'm hoping to keep it very 'this is what I do, there are lots of ways to solve this problem'. If there are specific things you'd like to see in this please speak up. My plan is to punt on

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread James Henderson
You should use what works best for you, of course, but like R.I., I'm not sure what you mean by not well supported. I'd estimate that Puppet non-root is not widely *used*, but that's because many of the resources that people want to manage cannot be modified by

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-11 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Original Message - From: James Henderson james.m.hender...@gmail.com To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 4:18:38 PM Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet You should use what works best for you, of course, but like R.I., I'm

[Puppet Users] Re: Rootless Puppet

2013-10-10 Thread James Henderson
Hello, I am the guy who Spencer is talking about. Since I am brand new to puppet, and puppet non-root is not well supported at this time, we have decided to go with a more script based option. However I am very interested in the future of puppet and I am willing to provide input, testing and