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. "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > 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 >> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/0c1dcd28-3bb9-4759-899a-e00559e783d9%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > Johan De Wit > > Open Source Consultant > > Red Hat Certified Engineer (805008667232363) > Puppet Certified Professional 2013 (PCP0000006) > _________________________________________________________ > Open-Future Phone +32 (0)2/255 70 70 > Zavelstraat 72 Fax +32 (0)2/255 70 71 > 3071 KORTENBERG Mobile +32 (0)474/42 40 73 > BELGIUM http://www.open-future.be > _________________________________________________________ > > Next Events: > Puppet Fundamentals Training | > http://www.open-future.be/puppet-fundamentals-training-4-till-6th-february > Puppet Intruction Course | > http://www.open-future.be/puppet-introduction-course-7th-february > Zabbix Certified Training | > http://www.open-future.be/zabbix-certified-training-10-till-12th-february > Zabbix for Large Environments Training | > http://www.open-future.be/zabbix-large-environments-training-13-till-14th-february > Subscribe to our newsletter | http://eepurl.com/BUG8H > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/52CFA61E.9040708%40open-future.be. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/726048E1-A883-408C-803D-A0C8D849BCD3%40icloud.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
