On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Paul Lathrop <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It does exist! >> >> Sadly, the documentation is the code, as far as I've been able to >> determine. You can get a fair amount of information if you are using a >> webserver like Apache in front of puppetmasterd by watching your >> access logs. >> >> --Paul >> > > > One of the things I want eventually is for us to have documentation on what > is possible in a user API at docs.puppetlabs.com. > > Our top end API doesn't have a lot for you to "drive" the puppetmaster or > dashboard programmatically yet, and it's more puppetmaster-to-node. > > I think you'll see that evolve over time. > > We should definitely clarify a bit more (in those docs) what is possible > via REST now for scripting against Puppet, though I think for the most part > you can look at REST today as largely an internals feature (faster/better > RPC) and over the long hall you'll see that become more of a strategic > documented integration API. It's certaintly the kind of thing we want to > enable, allowing other tools to "latch on" to Puppet to use it as their > configuration management engine. (Just as we want to (and do) enable > Puppet to latch on to those external systems, as we do with things like > custom functions and external nodes). > > Hope that helps, > > --Michael > > That should be "long haul", as a long hall is something different entirely :) -- 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.
