OpenShifit is trying to abstract away a lot of the issues with this type of scenario.
Unfortunately, I'm not certain of the support on non RHEL-based distros at this point but the idea is at least worth looking at. http://openshift.github.io/ On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Klavs Klavsen <[email protected]> wrote: > I know of several who have managed servers, but want to use Puppet to roll > manage the applications they install, and whatelse they have been allowed > to manage - but that will never be able to run puppet as root, since the OS > is not their responsibility. > > Also - some of those, the managers of the server use puppet (as root) to > set them up - but again - they can't share puppet repo.. so it would be > preferrable to be able to install root elsewhere (they build their own > patched version of puppet, to make it support installing under /opt - not > something puppet supports very well currently). They are also using puppet > on a lot of diff. unix OS'es - so they have to compile it for several > themselves, and since they want thing uniform (and none-intrusive) - they > choose to install under /opt on all. > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
