In addition to all that, one quick thing to lower the barrier to entry is
to just start off with this in your default node:
node default {
notify {"hello world": }
}
On Friday, December 28, 2012 3:26:47 AM UTC-8, Keiran Sweet wrote:
>
> Hi There,
> A couple of suggestions if you are starting to learn Puppet.
> * Build an environment where you are using the same major release of the
> software, ie All 3.x or 2.7 master/clients
> Although it is supported to have masters running later versions,
> consistency is key when you are learning the basics.
>
> * Familiarize yourself with how nodes are classified to apply
> configurations to nodes.
>
> In your example , you have created a module to manage squid, and it is
> only applied when you apply the squid class to the machine via the include
> statement.
>
> To make this persistent, you need to classify your node, most commonly via
> a node definition in the site.pp manifest file.
>
> Have a read of this document about node definitions, it should help you:
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/lang_node_definitions.html
>
> You may also find the following very useful:
>
> * Learning Puppet - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/index.html
> * Pro Puppet - James Turnbull & Jeffrey McCune
> * The Puppet cookbook - http://puppetcookbook.com/
> * Puppet modules fundamentals -
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_fundamentals.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> K
>
>
> On Thursday, December 27, 2012 6:55:38 PM UTC, ratotopi wrote:
>>
>> I have two box with centos 6.3 and centos 5.8 running puppet master 3.0
>> and puppet client 2.7 respectively. I can make master work when I use
>> "puppet apply" on it and it works fine but I have not been able to do that
>> with client, I cannot make it work, when i run the following command in
>> client it shows the following output
>>
>> *puppet agent --test --server='puppet.xyz.com'*
>> info: Caching catalog for puppetclient.xyz.com
>> info: Applying configuration version '1356631880'
>> notice: Finished catalog run in 0.06 seconds
>> *
>> *and on master when i give the following command it works*
>>
>> puppet apply -e "include squid"*
>> /Stage[main]/Squid/Package[squid]/ensure: created
>> Finished catalog run in 39.18 seconds
>>
>> Puppet master has the init.pp files in
>> /etc/puppet/modules/squid/manifests/init.pp which contains following
>> lines :-
>>
>> class squid {
>> case $operatingsystem {
>> centos, redhat: {
>> $service_name = 'squid'
>> $conf_file = 'squid.conf'
>> }
>> }
>>
>> package { 'squid':
>> ensure => 'installed',
>> }
>>
>> service { 'squid':
>> ensure => 'stopped',
>> enable => 'false',
>> require => Package [ 'squid' ]
>> }
>> }
>>
>> What else do I need to do to make client work. I have searched internet
>> and they show different command and some of them not even work what should
>> I do to learn puppet and make it work. Thank you for your input.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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