Re: [Puppet Users] Does create_resources support virtual resources?

On Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 6:04:28 AM UTC+11, Gary Larizza wrote: > > Create_resources doesn't support virtual users, but Hiera DOES support > hash-merging, so it could find all users in all hierarchies with hiera_hash > and then declare them at once. Presumably at some point this

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Documenting corner cases

to someone's unanswered question on Stack Exchange or Ask.puppetlabs.com or some other forum I'd add links there back to the now-documented issue. On 13 April 2016 at 01:11, Alex Harvey <alexharv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 5:40:03 AM UTC+10, R

[Puppet Users] Re: Documenting corner cases

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 5:40:03 AM UTC+10, Rob Nelson wrote: > > Some of us (and I seem to be really good at this) run into edge cases that > others often do not. The information is then stored in some obscure Jira > ticket, GitHub issue, or just in someone's head. When the next person

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 4 syntax highlighting in Wordpress

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 5:48:14 AM UTC+10, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > I do Puppet syntax highlighting like this: > > Open up puppet code in Vim with syntax highlighting on. > > Use ":TOhtml" to save it as a formatted HTML file. > > Either use the HTML snippet directly on a web page, or for

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 4 syntax highlighting in Wordpress

I still haven't found any Puppet syntax highlighting plugins for Puppet (3 or 4). I'll be most grateful to anyone willing to share their secrets with me. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 4 syntax highlighting in Wordpress

; most cases. > > Trevor > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Alex Harvey <alexh...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone out there have any tips for getting nice-looking Puppet 4 >> syntax highlighting to work in a Wordpress blog? I

[Puppet Users] Puppet 4 syntax highlighting in Wordpress

Hi all, Does anyone out there have any tips for getting nice-looking Puppet 4 syntax highlighting to work in a Wordpress blog? I am currently using Alex Mills's SyntaxHighlighter Evolved and I found one apparently

Re: [Puppet Users] puppetlabs-firewall: source param as array

Hi all, In case anyone else is looking to solve this problem in a standard way, I have written a fairly simple module that attempts to close out this gap: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/alexharvey/firewall_multi/readme Best regards, Alex On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 11:17:25 AM UTC+11,

Re: [Puppet Users] firewall module to accept array of sources/dests

Hi all, I have a working prototype and any feedback would be welcome. https://github.com/alexharv074/puppet-firewall_multi Kind regards, Alex On 21 February 2016 at 10:28, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 02/19/2016 04:00 AM, Alex Harvey wrote: > >&g

Re: [Puppet Users] firewall module to accept array of sources/dests

On 14 February 2016 at 00:30, Felix Frank wrote: > > Sure, but I feel that this case is especially confusing. > > The user does not remove a resource from their manifest. They change a > parameter of one of their resources, which feels like changing a property >

Re: [Puppet Users] firewall module to accept array of sources/dests

On 13 February 2016 at 09:57, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 02/12/2016 07:11 AM, Alex Harvey wrote: > >> >> ACCEPT tcp -- 1.1.1.1/24 0.0.0.0/0 multiport dports >> 80,443 /* 100 allow http and https access */ >

Re: [Puppet Users] firewall module to accept array of sources/dests

multiple rules (when adding with -A), or will cause multiple > rules to be deleted (with -D)." > > Converting the firewall type to manage multiple rules with a single > resource is surely the way to madness ;). > > > > > -Hunter > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:33 P

[Puppet Users] Re: What I think that is needed for a practical Puppet class

That's fantastic work you are doing there. I also agree with your approach to teaching. Traditionally new Puppet users have been trained with a view to writing their own modules, only to find out at the end that the real work is in building infrastructure out of Forge modules. As you say,

[Puppet Users] firewall module to accept array of sources/dests

declaration is impossible, therefore will volunteer to add the feature. Can I get some feedback at this early stage that my PR would be accepted, assuming I can come up with a clean, working solution? Thanks, Alex -- Alex Harvey RAZOR Consulting http://razorconsulting.com.au T: +61 409 665 227 --

Re: [Puppet Users] librarian-puppet vs R10K

On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 2:31:14 AM UTC+11, Steve Traylen wrote: > > > There's another one to consider > https://github.com/cernops/jens > it recently got an update to accept hook calls from gitlab. We get > our git pushes deployed in 0.4s now. > Thanks I'll keep it in mind! > > --

[Puppet Users] librarian-puppet vs R10K

Hi all, I am interested in the future of the Librarian-puppet project - to find out how many people are still using it, and if there are people out there who actually prefer it over R10K. I recently looked into R10K for a few projects I was working on, and I found it to be surprisingly

Re: [Puppet Users] librarian-puppet vs R10K

On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 6:15:41 AM UTC+11, Garrett Honeycutt wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > I generally implement both for customers. Though I use Dan Bode's > librarian-puppet-simple which purposely does not handle dependencies. I > spoke at a couple Puppet Camp's regarding dealing with

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Compiling catalogs as CD pipeline

and if people think it's a valuable contribution. On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 3:14:00 AM UTC+11, David Schmitt wrote: > > > > On 20/10/2015 08:32, Alex Harvey wrote: > > In case anyone is looking at this in the archives: > > I ended up concluding that the tool we

[Puppet Users] Re: catalog-diff and create_resources not correct

Hi Johan, I read your excellent blog post on this http://johan.koewacht.net/puppet/2015/01/12/catalog-diff-create_resources.html I have also run into the same issue. Was this ever resolved? You wrote at the end, But question now, should we patch the catalog-diff preprocessor.rb or puppet’s

[Puppet Users] Re: catalog-diff and create_resources not correct

Actually looks like there's an open PR to fix this here https://github.com/acidprime/puppet-catalog-diff/pull/28 On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at 3:55:11 PM UTC+11, Alex Harvey wrote: > > Hi Johan, > > I read your excellent blog post on this > > http://johan.koewacht.net

Re: [Puppet Users] Beaker and mock services

then I could commit a modified file site_manifests/base.pp in fixtures that removes the class for joining the FreeIPA domain. Any other ideas? On 24 October 2015 at 19:25, Alex Harvey <alexharv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 8:11:46 PM UTC+11, Davi

Re: [Puppet Users] Beaker and mock services

On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 8:11:46 PM UTC+11, David Schmitt wrote: > > fakes/mocks in s/w development have a very limited scope: usually only one > or two methods with pre-defined return values. If you really do not want to > test integration with a certain service, perhaps making that

Re: [Puppet Users] Beaker and mock services

On 21 October 2015 at 23:28, Gareth Rushgrove <gar...@morethanseven.net> wrote: > On 20 October 2015 at 08:49, Alex Harvey <alexharv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am investigating whether or not I can use Beaker to do acceptance > testing > &g

[Puppet Users] Beaker and mock services

in rspec etc. Has anyone done anything like this before? Kind regards, Alex Harvey -- 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 puppet-user

[Puppet Users] Re: Compiling catalogs as CD pipeline

In case anyone is looking at this in the archives: I ended up concluding that the tool we were using is redundant and superseded by rspec-puppet. I now have rspec-puppet host tests that look something like: require 'spec_helper' ['myhost1, 'myhost2'].each do |fqdn| hostname,

[Puppet Users] Re: [announce] puppetlabs-concat 2.0.x release deletion

I'm not exactly sure what's going on here but Puppet Forge seems to be still advertising the versions 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 From librarian-puppet install --verbose ... [Librarian] Resolving puppetlabs-concat ( 2.0.0) https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com [Librarian] Checking manifests [Librarian] Module

[Puppet Users] Re: [announce] puppetlabs-concat 2.0.x release deletion

Ah, thanks very much for clearing that up. On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 5:50:04 AM UTC+10, Alex Dreyer wrote: On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 12:55:44 AM UTC-7, Alex Harvey wrote: I'm not exactly sure what's going on here but Puppet Forge seems to be still advertising the versions 2.0.0

[Puppet Users] Re: Compiling catalogs as CD pipeline

On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 11:25:35 PM UTC+10, Clayton O'Neill wrote: On Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 4:05:15 AM UTC-4, Alex Harvey wrote: As part of an upgrade to Puppet 4, my team is considering to switch from an in-house tool that compiles puppet manifests into catalog against

[Puppet Users] Compiling catalogs as CD pipeline

Hi all, As part of an upgrade to Puppet 4, my team is considering to switch from an in-house tool that compiles puppet manifests into catalog against the installed version of Puppet https://github.com/oldNoakes/puppet-validator Looking around it seems that others do things like puppet-lint,

[Puppet Users] Re: Dependency problem for Puppet yum package

On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 3:05:09 AM UTC+10, staceyt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to use puppet to downgrade my gdm package from 64 to 39, but got package dependency problem: Here is my class: class gdmver39 { yumrepo { 'custom': baseurl =

Re: [Puppet Users] misbehaving file resource on only one server

Providing this isn't a production host, I'd use locate to find the file posix.rb (that's your built-in file provider), then insert some puts statements to see if you can find out exactly where in the code it's failing. On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 3:49:24 PM UTC+11, Gabriel Filion wrote: On

[Puppet Users] Re: Facts which depend on (not-yet-installed) packages

Have a look at how the build in RPM provider works, for instance: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/package/rpm.rb#L37 On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 2:46:05 PM UTC+11, Alex Harvey wrote: Can't you avoid this problem altogether by determining the PHP version

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about directory environment setting.

On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 11:50:08 AM UTC+11, Hiu wrote: hi Alex, thanks for getting it works. But, what is the reasons having environment.conf? Under which type of circumstance that we need this configuration file? Thanks Again! As you can see from the documentation, environments

[Puppet Users] Re: Facts which depend on (not-yet-installed) packages

Can't you avoid this problem altogether by determining the PHP version in your custom provider code? Then you wouldn't need a custom fact at all, and in your manifest, have the custom type require the PHP package. On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 6:04:53 AM UTC+11, Jan S. wrote: Hello, I have

[Puppet Users] Re: Question about directory environment setting.

I don't have a PE3.7 handy to try it but it looks like you simply don't need a section in your environment.conf file, as the error message says. I think you need to look at this page: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/config_file_environment.html On Wednesday, March 18, 2015

[Puppet Users] Re: how to install multiple packages from the list

I would suggest taking a step back - why do you have a requirement to read the list of packages from a file? On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10:15:07 PM UTC+11, Alex Miroshnik wrote: Hi Guys, I need to install multiple packages on the Ubuntu 14.0.4 using puppet. All packages are listed in

[Puppet Users] Re: Java Client to access Puppet Node Classifier API

The node classifier API is documented here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/pe/latest/nc_index.html As far as how you would write this in Java, well that's a Java programming question and you'll probably need a Java forum to find help with that. On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 5:43:16 AM UTC+11, Kiran

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet as patch management

I don't recommend using Puppet for anything to do with patching, even in the distribution of the patches. (Actually, I'm not sure how Puppet would be used to distribute patches even in principle.) Anyhow, sooner or later you're going to want a tool that was actually designed for patch and

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet as patch management

While it's possible to do stuff like this in Puppet, this isn't really configuration management you're doing; it's systems administration. If your requirement is to have patches installed automatically, I would write a 10 line shell script, and use puppet to install it as a cron job. On

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet as patch management

While it's possible to do stuff like this in Puppet, it's not really configuration management that you're doing here; it's systems administration. If your requirement is to have patches installed automatically, I would write this as a 10 line shell script, and have Puppet just take care of

[Puppet Users] Error handling in base class in cloud solutions

Hi all I'm after some feedback on best practices with regards to error handling. I have two questions: Question #1. Most puppet cloud solutions typically a base class that configures services common to all nodes like the resolver, Nagios, LDAP, etc. These classes all depend on the

Re: [Puppet Users] dynamic hiera_config setting

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:57:17 PM UTC+10, Henrik Lindberg wrote: I was hoping that it would derive the hiera.yaml path dynamically from the clients' environment when it checks in, but this seems not to be the case. That is correct, it does not do that. - henrik I am

Re: [Puppet Users] dynamic hiera_config setting

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 10:47:20 AM UTC+10, Alex Harvey wrote: I am also encountering this issue (puppet 3.3.1) - is it still a known issue? Ignore - I found the open Jira ticket here https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/HI-46 -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] Hiera, version control encrypted backends

several teams that have ownership over various pieces of sensitive information this makes managing secrets 'easy'. On Apr 13, 2014 4:05 AM, Alex Harvey alexh...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi all, I'm pondering a design problem and would appreciate some advice: A reason

[Puppet Users] Hiera, version control encrypted backends

Hi all, I'm pondering a design problem and would appreciate some advice: A reason for externalising data in Hiera is often said to be so that configuration data can be stored in a version control system, e.g. http://puppetlabs.com/blog/first-look-installing-and-using-hiera Meanwhile, the

[Puppet Users] Benefits of retrofitting Puppet to a legacy fleet

Hi all, I am going to have a meeting to sell the idea of retrofitting Puppet to a fleet of already-built legacy Unix systems to a skeptical management (as opposed to only using it to build new linux systems, where I don't need to sell the idea). Here, legacy Unix means AIX, Solaris, HP-UX,

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, git security

On Friday, May 17, 2013 12:35:24 AM UTC+10, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Stephen Gran stephe...@guardian.co.uk javascript: wrote: Your push server can run git update and then rsync to the masters. Why rsync if you have git? Martin, John, thanks for your

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, git security

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:51:14 PM UTC+10, yersinia.spiros wrote: Sorry for the top posting. Imho, i think this is a question that could be asked on the git mailing list. Sorry, my question apparently isn't clear enough - this definitely isn't a git question that can be answered at

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, git security

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:48:22 AM UTC+10, jcbollinger wrote: If you want your masters to rely on a revision control system for manifests, data, or whatever, then it follows that the masters must be permitted to access that system. If they may not do so across network segments, then

[Puppet Users] Puppet, git security

Hi all, In my company we have a security policy that frowns upon things like puppet masters making git pull requests to other network segments. Allowing code to be pushed into these segments is less of a problem. This policy makes it difficult to do stuff like,

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, git security

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:40:28 PM UTC+10, denmat wrote: I haven't worked out a pure git way but Jenkins, git export, rsync are a good solid combo :) Do you know of any documentation or blog posts from others using a configuration like this? My initial thinking was to use rsync but I

Re: [Puppet Users] Apache module

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:16:32 AM UTC+11, ashely wrote: I suspect you are correct about in house apache modules. I also found the various apache modules on forge or elsewhere did not accomodate our site's needs. It is a tough problem. We ended up building 2 apache modules. the

[Puppet Users] Apache module

the initiative and feedback lots and lots of changes to the module? Thanks in advance for feedback. Kind regards, Alex Harvey -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.0 fails install on Solaris 10 w/ ruby 1.8.7

On Thursday, December 20, 2012 4:49:33 AM UTC+11, Philip Brown wrote: That being said, since puppet IS ruby code, a large component of 'right' could reasonably be defined as there should be a functional ruby gem for it! And if that doesn't work for you there are two other considerations

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.0 fails install on Solaris 10 w/ ruby 1.8.7

On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:02:28 AM UTC+11, jcbollinger wrote: The requirement for a local C compiler is pretty much a function of the choice to use gems in general. In principle, any gem may contain a native extension that needs to be built, so gem-dependent systems need to have

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 3.0 fails install on Solaris 10 w/ ruby 1.8.7

On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 9:28:09 AM UTC+10, Matthaus Litteken wrote: The puppet 3 gem requires hiera, whose latest version requires json, which can be either json (a c extension), or json_pure (a ruby implementation). If it is the c extension, make and gcc are required to build the c

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Solaris processor count facts - bug or feature?

On Friday, December 7, 2012 9:05:32 PM UTC+11, Andrew Beresford wrote: How about creating a processorcorecount and processorthreadcount with correct meanings? That then leaves the option to deprecate processorcount. I've realised that at some point in the past I have created a

[Puppet Users] Re: Solaris processor count facts - bug or feature?

I prefer the core count definition, but whatever it is, it should be consistent between Linux and Solaris. Yes it certainly should be the same on all platforms - the question is if we change it who is going to be impacted and how can we manage the change? I believe the vast majority of

[Puppet Users] Ruby for HP-UX 11.00

Hi all, I have been trying to compile Ruby on HP-UX 11.00 but there are too many dependencies and no publicly available packages for these on such an old operating system and I'm forced to give up. As a last resort - and it's a long shot indeed! - I am wondering if anyone out there has

Re: [Puppet Users] compiling ruby on HP-UX / PA-RISC

It turns out static linking didn't work either but for the benefit of people reading this in the archives I found a workaround - There is some documentation of HP-UX PA-RISC compiler here

[Puppet Users] Re: Solaris processor count facts - bug or feature?

On Monday, December 3, 2012 9:54:49 PM UTC+11, Andrew Beresford wrote: Feature :) I do understand what the code is doing but question whether that's what it should be doing. While it's ultimately a matter of opinion, it violates the 'principle of least surprise' for me and also my

[Puppet Users] Re: Solaris processor count facts - bug or feature?

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:02:21 PM UTC+11, Alex Harvey wrote: Hi all, This relates to a discussion we are having in the Redmine ticket https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11612. I am extending the processorcount, physicalprocessorcount and processorX facts that exist

[Puppet Users] Solaris processor count facts - bug or feature?

regards, Alex Harvey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/WlRmUVNCey4J. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com

Re: [Puppet Users] compiling ruby on HP-UX / PA-RISC

On Monday, November 5, 2012 4:27:54 PM UTC+11, Michael Stanhke wrote: 1. You may need to file a bug with ruby-lang.org 2. Would static linking help at all with being maintainable? Thanks Michael. Actually static linking should be fine - I didn't think of it. I also raised a bug as you

[Puppet Users] compiling ruby on HP-UX / PA-RISC

workaround mentioned in the above thread but it's not really a maintainable solution. Does anyone have any further ideas of what could be stopping us from compiling? We're trying to compile ruby 1.8.7p352 on HP-UX 11.11 PA-RISC. Best regards, Alex Harvey -- You received this message because you

Re: [Puppet Users] multiple puppet masters on multiple subnets

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the responses here. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/xGWoov-8j58J. To post to this group, send email to

[Puppet Users] multiple puppet masters on multiple subnets

about the local Puppet Masters. Has anyone done this before or have any advice on whether or not this is a good idea? Best wishes, Alex Harvey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet / scalability

On 15 May 2012 22:10, Steve Traylen steve.tray...@cern.ch wrote: We are currently along way from that with a single master and around 200 nodes while we learn puppet and migrate away from quattor. The 300k figures are a couple of years away, we will have a respectable figure

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet / scalability

Thanks kindly to all for the thoughtful responses. I'll be looking closely at the idea of using load balanced Puppet servers. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the other problem I'm told I'll probably encounter, namely the difficulty in compiling Ruby and other packages in AIX, HPUX

[Puppet Users] Puppet / scalability

me that ours would be the largest Puppet site in the world (I think that's not true). Could someone confirm? General feedback also welcome. Kind regards, Alex Harvey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send