On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 1:31 PM, randal cobb <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I have a small problem I'm trying to resolve, and I'm bowing to the > masters for suggestions. Our development organization uses VMware and > desktop VMs to perform development efforts; I've come up with mechanisms > to populate these VMs using puppet to install all the tools they need, such > as Eclipse, Maven, JDKs, etc. but I'm faced with an issue that I have put > off until now: using geographically located tools and servers. In my > environment, we have several geographically located "mirror" or "slave" > servers for key infrastructure environments such as Nexus, Sonar, > Subversion, etc. So, while all of our "master" servers are located in > data-centers in the US, we will have "slave" versions of them located in > other countries, such as Brazil, India, Canada, etc. So, on to my > question: Is there a way for Puppet to detect where a client is running, > geographically? For example, if a VM starts up in Hyderabad, India, I > want to add host entries to the VM that point services like SVN, Nexus, > Sonar, Jenkins, etc. to local slaves. I already have manifests to set the > host entries appropriately for a given location, so this is the easy part. > To add a wrinkle, my company has added rules so that ALL VMs that > end-users can run on their desktops or laptops MUST use NAT ip addresses, > so I can't easily use an IP subnet to calculate what the best hosts to use > are. > > So, might anyone have any suggestions or ideas of how I might try to > accomplish this? > anycast. Ok, in all seriousness, you can either write a custom fact using geoip lookup if the WAN address is reliable. Or you need pass location info to the VM via ovf properties and read it back as a custom fact using vmtoolsd. See http://blogs.vmware.com/vapp/2009/07/selfconfiguration-and-the-ovf-environment.html for more info on the second option. HTH, Nan -- 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/CACqVBqCn4CaRY701b%3DjZTv7f1P4BOiWmZyvQ_7E8E%2B1Wms1ALw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
