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On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 10:51:12PM -0800, Thomas Rasmussen wrote:
> Thanks for the replies, I can see that there is no "easy" setup to allow 
> what I'm looking for :-( I will be looking a bit more on the External Node 
> Classifier to see if this will solve my problem.
> 
> We will be using puppet to fully automate everything that has to be 
> performed on servers, so I will not be interested in using a different 
> system to do the app-deployment than to do the OS deployment. 
> 
> I was hoping that maybe it was possible to do this task through the 
> Dashboard, but I discovered that it was only a standard htpassword setup 
> without any group knowledge or ACLs on nodes.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Friday, March 2, 2012 10:42:28 AM UTC+1, Thomas Rasmussen wrote:
> >
> > Hi 
> >
> > I'm in the process of looking for a way to have developers deploying 
> > on their test systems without intervention of sysadmins, to solve this 
> > i'd like to use Puppet (either the OSS version or Enterprise, 
> > whichever solves the problem). 
> >
> > I can manage to only grant access to certain systems and limit the 
> > ability to execute puppetd --test, however, the developers would like 
> > to create a new version of the application and then this should be put 
> > into place instead of the old version, but I can't seem to find a 
> > solution to this. 
> >
> > I was thinking somewhat on the option to issue a command like this: 
> > puppetd --test --my-app-version 3.2.1 
> >
> > And then the puppet manifests will use the my-app-version variable to 
> > fetch and deploy this specific version. I know that the manifests 
> > should be developed with care, which is also the idea. 
> >
> > Or what solutions do people use in case where developers should have 
> > access to deploy, but not have access to the puppetmaster server? 
> >
> > hope that this can be done. 
> >
> > Regards 
> > Thomas

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