Can you pass that information to the instances using cloud-init / user-data?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Andy Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd recommend checking out Razor: > > https://github.com/puppetlabs/razor-server/wiki > > Although as far as I'm aware it's not production ready yet. > > On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:41:01 UTC+1, Alex Demitri wrote: >> >> Hi guys - i am fairly new to puppet and i am trying to figure out ways to >> implement it in my organization to make good use of it. One thing we >> thought would be useful to better our deployment process, is to add a >> mechanism that would have a vanilla server getting installed on a VM, boot >> up, check into puppet and figure out these three questions: >> >> 1) Where am I? >> - in what Datacenter/Availability zone am I? Based on that, what >> syslog servers do i have to use, NTP servers, etc.. >> 2) Who am I? >> - what server am i? What files do i need for basic functions? >> 3) What am I supposed to do? >> - based on what server I am, what am i supposed to do? do i have to >> run Tomcat? Apache? And if yes, where are my configuration files? >> >> In short, find a holistic way for a system to come up to speed by itself. >> I already thought of using meaningful hostnames for the roles of the >> servers but that does not work well in the cloud... >> >> Thoughts? >> >> 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/19eb33ce-cf76-43b4-abef-a6b17dad568f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/19eb33ce-cf76-43b4-abef-a6b17dad568f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. Any sufficiently recent Microsoft OS contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Unix. -- 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/CAApMPgxzuj8G4VveS-maCUM4CyehGwRmR%3D6pwbo5d9hbFkxEkQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
