On 4/2/13 7:48 PM, Thomas A. Fine wrote: > Hi, > > As we gradually spread puppet management to all of our systems, we've > run across a group that's managed by us, but also semi-self-managed, and > they'd set up puppet to manage some of their own software configurations > (they provide an outward facing archive service). > > Is there a way to set up puppet so that it looks at multiple servers for > it's configuration? > > My first guess is to say that we control /etc/puppet/puppet.conf and > point it at our servers, and that they fall back to running puppet from > cron with "--config /path/to/their/puppet.conf". > > Is there a better way to handle this? i.e. can you put something in > puppet.conf that tells it to apply rules found on more than one server? > > Of course we also plan on setting up some yet-to-be-designed revision > control system. So another alternative would be that when we set that > up we design it so that some modules can be edited by individuals > outside the systems group. Then we're back to one single configuration, > and not only that we can watch what other groups are doing with modules > where we've handed out permission. This may be the best solution since > it's vaporware right now. Has anyone done anything like this? > > Thanks, > > tom >
Tom, Check out defining multiple paths in the modulepath[1]. This would allow both teams to have their own modules and versions with names that might conflict. Environments[2] will also help, as you can place the other team's systems in their own environment, even though all the systems would talk to the same puppet master service. Heavily recommend using VCS from the beginning, you are going to need it. Here's an old talk I gave around version control (starts about half way through) [3]. [1] - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_fundamentals.html#the-modulepath [2] - http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/environment.html [3] - http://talks.garretthoneycutt.com/20110413-Change_management_with_Puppet_for_PuppetNYC.pdf Regards, -g -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
