DHCP + CMDB + ENC will get you there. (Foreman is an easy CMDB for Puppet.)
DHCP answers "Where am I?" and "Who am I?" CMDB + ENC answers "What am I supposed to do?" On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Alex Demitri <[email protected]> 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/16a1cb0c-ab6d-4578-a221-482a86d05130%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/16a1cb0c-ab6d-4578-a221-482a86d05130%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- -- 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/CAF-H%3DOm_0G3-VWnnjK5F6VD-rwQd8mtfQbnnkR_VKb0uYrmssQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
