Hi , I 'm going thru the Wiki. I'm sorry about the confusion. What I meant by using Templates or Classes to define nodes nodes .
I do understand that nodes define nodes. While going thru wiki I stumbled on the Fact with Templates and Classes. and was wondering when the former makes more sense than later. Since the wiki does not discuss this. Cheers yogesh On Nov 16, 1:24 am, "Paul Lathrop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yogesh, > > You clearly have a lot of reading to do. Take a look at the > documentation available on the Puppet > website:http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/DocumentationStartis a > great place to start. I say you have a lot of reading to do because a > couple of your questions don't really make sense; you don't use > templates *or* classes to define nodes. A node is a node, and it may > or may not include classes and/or use templates. I recommend you read > through the documentation, then start off managing a single, > conceptually-isolated part of your infrastructure; the canonical > example is managing SSH. > > Good luck! > > --Paul > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi , > > > just starting off with Puppet on Macs. initially we are planning for a > > small group of machines. If successfull we plan to span it to entire > > environment in a phased manner. > > > I have a couple of newbie questions. > > > Do i have to use custom script to create and maintain user/group > > accounts as far as i have read i can manage passwords ? > > > Can i use puppet fileserver also as sourcedir for pushing packages ? > > > Can anyone enumerate the advanatages/disadvantages between using > > Templates and Classes for defining > > Nodes ? > > > Thanks > > yogesh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
