[Puppet Users] One master per environment, or one to rule them all?

I've asked a similar question on the Terraform mailing-list but on reflection, I think it's more appropriate here. Let's say I need several environments, and I'm using AWS, with each environment in a separate VPC. I'm going to configure instances with Puppet (and deploy with Jenkins). I see

[Puppet Users] Hiera and r10k, roles and responsibilities

I'm looking to set up a new Puppet infrastructure, which will manage several environments (nothing fancy, let's call them sandbox, staging, production). Given that I can use hiera to differentiate data by environment, is there still a use case for r10k? If so, can somebody give some examples

[Puppet Users] Re: Clean Puppet 3 to Puppet 4 migration

Been through a similar upgrade myself. The first step would be to spin up a new puppet master running Puppet Server. You can copy over the SSL dir from your old/current master to avoid SSL errors on the agents. For testing you'll want to make sure your manifests work correctly using the

Re: [Puppet Users] Announce: Bolt 0.5.1

Saw this, just joined. I will keep a watchful eye out for ideas that people are coming up with. -- Warron French On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Eric Sorenson wrote: > Hi, I'm super excited to announce the initial open-source release of Bolt, > a

[Puppet Users] Announce: PDK 1.2 is now available

Hello Everyone! Today we are announcing the latest release of PDK, version 1.2.0. This release includes new features, UX improvements, and bugfixes. Some of the new features and improvements include: - pdk new task generates a new Puppet task (https://puppet.com/puppet-bolt) - pdk

[Puppet Users] Announce: Forge Support for Modules with Puppet Tasks

Hello Everyone! Today we are announcing updates to the Forge (https://forge.puppet.com/) to support tasks in Puppet modules. *Improvements include:* - Forge accepts modules with tasks where each task includes the corresponding task metadata: https://puppet.com/docs/bolt/

[Puppet Users] Task Modules Release Announcement

Hi everyone! The Puppet Modules team is excited to launch tasks in existing modules, and also to provide generic task modules for performing standard functions. We're releasing eleven modules in total with tasks: four existing modules have been updated to have tasks added; and seven new task

[Puppet Users] Announce: Bolt 0.5.1

Hi, I'm super excited to announce the initial open-source release of Bolt, a new project that lets you easily run commands, scripts, tasks, and task plans across your infrastructure. It's got its own product page on the puppet site: https://puppet.com/products/puppet-bolt

[Puppet Users] Clean Puppet 3 to Puppet 4 migration

About three years ago (4 years ago?) I deployed a Puppet infrastructure for my company and department based on FOSS Puppet 3.7. Given that's been deprecated of course I'm very much looking to migrate to Puppet 4. Besides for about three months I worked for another company and got spoiled by

[Puppet Users] Today’s a big day for Puppet customers and users

Today we’re thrilled to announce our largest and most important set of product innovations. If you want to scale automation across your entire organization or deliver better software faster, keep reading or join us for the PuppetConf live stream (https://puppet.com/puppetconf/livestream/signup)

[Puppet Users] Forge repository timeout

Hi all, I'm trying to synchronize the Forge repository (https://forge.puppet.com) into my Katello install but it fail with connection errors (it was working a few weeks ago). When trying to download https://forge.puppet.com/modules.json, a simple curl/wget tries multiple times before getting