Can't you use Puppet to upgrade client versions ? I read about puppet being used to upgrade and all that . So why can you not upgrade your client versions using puppet itself ?
Regards Haro On Jul 4, 2:17 pm, Tass Skoudros <[email protected]> wrote: > A little history, I work with a small startup and we are looking at > rolling out a automated cloud based provisioning platform. We have a > dilemma and i wanted to ask your communities thoughts. > > As far as I am aware there are 3 ways to run puppet, standalone with > puppet, Client/Server and a hybrid of client/server and rsync. The > last of these wouldn't work very well in our case so I am not looking > at it as a potential solution. > > We have tried the standalone, its slick. To me the standalone method > is intended to address a need thats something entirely different to > what we require. I moved on. > > I then went on to the client/server method. Essentially there are 2 > ways this can work, the first is we(startup) control the master and > deploy clients. The second is we deploy master+client on every server, > the configuration would point to our external node web service. > > Each has its own advantage and we will be using external nodes to load > the configurations in both cases. The differences are that the first > would quickly become an issue when the version of the puppet client > changes. So we have been exploring the second of these and still have > other encounters that break with our goal of full automation. > > So my question, is there a better way? Am I missing something. -- 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.
