[Puppet Users] Trying to run a testbed on a new VM

2011-12-23 Thread Dan White
Running puppet 2.6.12 (that's what installs from EPEL/yum) on a CentOS 5.7 virtual machine as a puppet sandbox/testing ground and it won't apply any of the manifest: What am I missing ? -site.pp--- # Set global defaults - including backing up all files to the main filebucket and add

RE: [Puppet Users] Recommendation for general practice for application deployment?

2011-12-23 Thread Ken Barber
Hot-deploy can be risky. The biggest issue I've seen is a low permgen. Hot deploy puts twice the requirement on permgen. On Dec 23, 2011 7:58 PM, "Kenneth Lo" wrote: > “What are the problems this requirement is intended to solve?” > > > > > > What I was told from my eng team is that tomcat’s hot

RE: [Puppet Users] Recommendation for general practice for application deployment?

2011-12-23 Thread Kenneth Lo
"What are the problems this requirement is intended to solve?" What I was told from my eng team is that tomcat's hot-deployment for our app will eventually break, so we want to always make sure tomcat is stop before the deployment, and starting up fresh. We will probably go with Doug's suggest

Re: [Puppet Users] Recommendation for general practice for application deployment?

2011-12-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Kenneth Lo wrote: > Hi: > > I have a pretty general high-level question regarding application > deployment using puppet infrastructure. > > Being new with puppet here we have a pretty simple module setup where we > are utilizing a basic package-file-service com

[Puppet Users] CyberSource is looking for a puppet engineer in Boulder, Colorado.

2011-12-23 Thread Duncan McNaught
Details below. Please contact me for more info. Thanks --Duncan Job Details: Release Automation Engineer CyberSource provides businesses with services and software designed to automate the processing of web, phone and other customer-not-present credit card and check transactions. Our complete su

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing sensitive strings with puppet

2011-12-23 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Ryan Stewart wrote: > I'm new to Puppet, and I'm a software developer, not a sysadmin, so be > gentle. I have puppet managing some files via templates, and one of > the template variables that needs to be plugged in is a password of > sorts that shouldn't be gene

[Puppet Users] Re: deployment from SVN to production using puppet .. .. tips to start off with puppet

2011-12-23 Thread Ryan Coleman
Welcome! To start off, you may find http://docs.puppetlabs.com/#learning-puppet & http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/environment.html useful. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://gro

Re: [Puppet Users] Recommendation for general practice for application deployment?

2011-12-23 Thread Doug Chapman
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Felix Frank < felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/20/2011 05:26 PM, Kenneth Lo wrote: > > So the question is, given the service resource is also within the same > > module with the file, how do I make sure we can do the following > > sequentiall

[Puppet Users] deployment from SVN to production using puppet .. .. tips to start off with puppet

2011-12-23 Thread Agnello George
Hi I am completely new to puppet , let me introduce my self introduce my self i am a system admin / perl webdeveloper working for webportal company , we have a enviroment where we need to deploy our build from local svn to re remote QA environment in datacenter then apply the same to BETA

[Puppet Users] Managing sensitive strings with puppet

2011-12-23 Thread Ryan Stewart
I'm new to Puppet, and I'm a software developer, not a sysadmin, so be gentle. I have puppet managing some files via templates, and one of the template variables that needs to be plugged in is a password of sorts that shouldn't be generally available. In particular, it can't be stored in the manife

[Puppet Users] Re: right way to multiuser development

2011-12-23 Thread Marc DiBlasi
We wrote some scripts to use the Rackspace api to create two servers, set up one as a puppet master, then one as a client. It grabs the modules and node config from svn. We then test modules, mess with them, commit to svn when we're done, then destroy the servers. On Dec 23, 2:00 am, Alexey Wasily

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages from debian backports?

2011-12-23 Thread Tom De Vylder
Oh my bad, really. I forgot to mention you need to update your sources.list to include debian squeeze sources too. Regard, Tom On 22 Dec 2011, at 23:39, Walter Heck wrote: > I guess your best workaround then is to pin the package and all it's > dependencies to backports. > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2

Re: [Puppet Users] right way to multiuser development

2011-12-23 Thread Andreas Rogge
Am 23.12.2011 09:00, schrieb Alexey Wasilyev: How do you solve such problems? We do development on every developer's workstation. Everyone has his own puppetmaster and can use VMs to test wether his modules work or not. The modules are then checked into SVN which triggers the production puppet

[Puppet Users] right way to multiuser development

2011-12-23 Thread Alexey Wasilyev
Hello! Guys, who can share expirience in multiuser development of puppet modules? I try to configure different environments for every user, but faced that custom facts and functions are global for every environment.. How do you solve such problems? -- wbr, alw -- You received this message bec