Unless I am seriously mistaken, "masterless Puppet" is achieved by each node 
being its own master. 
And since puppet-master does not work on Windows (agent only) I suspect that 
masterless Windows puppet is mot currently possible. 

I could be mistaken. 

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the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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> On Jan 10, 2014, at 2:49 AM, Johan De Wit <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> This book : http://www.packtpub.com/puppet-3-beginners-guide/book is 
> describing a masterless setup with git.  As all books about puppet,  the 
> setup is linux based.
> I dontt' have any experience with windows.
> 
> Grts
> 
> Jo
> 
>> On 01/09/2014 06:54 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> We have a number of servers that we would like to manage remotely - mainly 
>> to set the servers up with relevant software/files when they are first set 
>> up. Additionally, we would like to make changes after the initial set up. 
>> For now, we would like to concentrate only on new servers and leave existing 
>> servers unmanaged. All servers are Windows ones with a mix of 2003 and 2008.
>> 
>> I've been playing with Puppet Open Source for a number of weeks now and I 
>> have a few questions. I am considering doing a masterless setup as we 
>> generally want to do a one time set up and most of the servers are 
>> different. There are a number of things that they share, such as hosts file 
>> but only some servers require, say, Apache installed. It needs to be easy to 
>> use and generally idiot-proof.
>> 
>> I understand that with masterless set up, I simply need to run puppet apply 
>> <file.pp> on each server and that's fine. To do it remotely, I am thinking 
>> of using something like psexec tool from Microsoft. However, it's not 
>> exactly fool proof. Yes, there are a couple of front-ends for psexec but I 
>> would ideally like something web UI based. I could write my own front-end in 
>> PHP but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if something already exists. Is 
>> there something web-based that I am able to kick off "puppet apply" command 
>> from? I would ideally like to run it in Apache under Windows so I can do 
>> away with Linux altogether.
>> 
>> I've been battling with getting the likes of passenger working with the 
>> puppet master but essentially gave up as I am not overly hot with Linux and 
>> I've been getting a ton of dependency errors (Ruby mainly) without being 
>> able to resolve them. So, that's pretty much out of the window and partially 
>> the reason why I decided to go masterless.
>> 
>> Also, I've seen a few git based solutions but having never used git, it's a 
>> bit over my head and there are no simple step-by-step tutorials that I could 
>> follow.
>> 
>> Any advice appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Alex
>> 
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