Re: [Puppet Users] Emulating Debians tasksel

2010-11-11 Thread Joel Merrick
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:28 AM, tecneeq tecn...@googlemail.com wrote: However, what if the selection of packages changes? Is there a more clever way to install tasks with tasksel, without listing each and every package the tasksel task is made of? Have you tried the meta-package

[Puppet Users] Patch Management

2010-11-02 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi Puppeteers! I've just been speaking to Ohad on #theforeman about package management, specifically about generating lists of packages : version numbers across the estate for things like patch management. DISCLAIMER: I'm new to puppet! What I was initially thinking was extended facter to

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Patch Management

2010-11-02 Thread Joel Merrick
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, luke.bigum luke.bi...@fasthosts.co.uk wrote: Do you want to be TOLD what needs updating across your site and then click/run something that will automatically do it? Yep, this is the one. Apologies if it wasn't clear For the third you won't be able to easily

[Puppet Users] Questions regarding workflow

2010-10-26 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi Pupeteers! I have a few questions regarding workflow that I'd appreciate insight from you guys on.. 1) How do people manage services that can't be affected all at once? For instance, we run a number of DNS caches behind load balancers at two different sites and (not that I'd do this!) if for

Re: [Puppet Users] Questions regarding workflow

2010-10-26 Thread Joel Merrick
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: The other is to use puppet to perform the work, and to use the PuppetCommander[3] mcollective plugin.  This allows you to schedule puppet runs from a central service. With this you can configure, for example,

[Puppet Users] UK Meet-up?

2010-09-14 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi all, I've been to a few conferences where puppet has been presented, but would love to know if there's a more puppet specific meet-up planned in the UK any time soon? t.i.a. Joel -- $ echo kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' -- You received this message because you

Re: [Puppet Users] UK Meet-up?

2010-09-14 Thread Joel Merrick
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Maher d...@witbe.net wrote: On 09/14/2010 03:25 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: Doubt there's enough traction here for too focused events :( A Europe-based Puppet Camp would probably go over well ; i mean, us Europeans use Puppet, too. :) +1 ! As much as

[Puppet Users] UK Meetups / Training

2009-02-17 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi all! Are there any Puppet UK meetups or training etc. ? Thanks, Joel -- $ echo kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To

[Puppet Users] Re: UK Meetups / Training

2009-02-17 Thread Joel Merrick
Haha, I'm from Manchester unfortunately. Anyone going to UKUUG? I'll be down there, can't wait.. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Gary Law gary@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/17 Joel Merrick joel.merr...@gmail.com Hi all! Are there any Puppet UK meetups or training etc. ? In the past

[Puppet Users] Puppet Questions

2009-02-10 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi guys, I've got a few questions regarding Puppet. We're currently investigating it for deployment at the ISP where I work. Here's some questions that have been raised; Why the pull architecture? How can this be achieved using a push, what are the limitations? What are the implications of

[Puppet Users] Re: Thanks for coming out last night, and sorry for the venue confusion. Planning future meetings.

2009-02-04 Thread Joel Merrick
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Brian Gupta brian.gu...@gmail.com wrote: It would be good to hear people's thoughts on what kind of meetings we should be having. (I'm thinking maybe alternating technical/social, with the occasional outreach meeting with another user group - e.g. - We

[Puppet Users] Re: Testing puppet manifests

2009-01-09 Thread Joel Merrick
If it's not been already mentioned.. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingMultipleEnvironments may help On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Ohad Levy ohadl...@gmail.com wrote: Ok - I'll try to make it as simple as I can... ***Modules*** We define 3 types of modules (its just our