[Puppet Users] Re: How to automatically implement default configuration changes made by a package upgrade

2012-09-05 Thread Justin Ellison
Hi Matthew, Some of this depends on your package manager. For example, on RedHat, if you take puppet completely out of the picture: 1) I install mysql from yum 2) I modify my.cnf 3) I upgrade mysql via yum In this case, if there was a configuration change to my.cnf by redhat, I won't get

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: merging iptables rules with puppet

2012-08-16 Thread Justin Ellison
I can't say enough good about the puppetlabs-firewall module. They've put a lot of work into it, and it works perfectly. https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-firewall No need for concat here. Justin On Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:01:01 AM UTC-5, Pete wrote: Hi, I manage my iptables

[Puppet Users] Re: Using puppet for release management?

2012-04-20 Thread Justin Ellison
IMO, Puppet isn't quite the right fit for application deployments in a lot of situations. In Drupal-speak - if you have multiple Drupal frontends with a shared MySQL backend, Puppet doesn't fit for deployments very well. What you need in that case is an orchestration tool. Why? Puppet cares

[Puppet Users] Re: mcollective plugin question

2012-02-22 Thread Justin Ellison
I've not used it, but this looks to fit the bill: https://github.com/joemiller/shellcmd-agent Justin On Feb 21, 9:46 am, Kenneth Lo k...@paydiant.com wrote: We've been using mcollective primarily for coordinate service restart across nodes as well as facts-finding, which are all well and

[Puppet Users] Re: Using foo::params, inheritance, and parameterized classes simultaneously?

2012-01-25 Thread Justin Ellison
g...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Justin Ellison jus...@techadvise.comwrote: I asked in IRC today, and no one could tell me the benefit -- maybe puppetlabs or example42 can answer my question. I've seen a handful of pretty bleeding-edge modules combining the use

[Puppet Users] Re: Using foo::params, inheritance, and parameterized classes simultaneously?

2012-01-14 Thread Justin Ellison
, Justin Ellison jus...@techadvise.comwrote: I asked in IRC today, and no one could tell me the benefit -- maybe puppetlabs or example42 can answer my question. I've seen a handful of pretty bleeding-edge modules combining the use of foo::parms, inheritance, and parameterized classes.  Here's

[Puppet Users] Using foo::params, inheritance, and parameterized classes simultaneously?

2012-01-13 Thread Justin Ellison
I asked in IRC today, and no one could tell me the benefit -- maybe puppetlabs or example42 can answer my question. I've seen a handful of pretty bleeding-edge modules combining the use of foo::parms, inheritance, and parameterized classes. Here's two examples:

[Puppet Users] Re: Deployment of applications

2011-09-15 Thread Justin Ellison
Everyone's right, you don't want puppet to do application deployments. You want it to setup your application server, but stop there. Case in point, use Puppet to setup Rails/LAMP/Tomcat, but don't use it to deploy your actual application. Instead use Capistrano, Fabric, Func, etc. If you're

[Puppet Users] Re: Secure Certification Authority Transfer

2011-08-25 Thread Justin Ellison
Disclaimer - I know nothing of actually doing what this article is referring to and it's impact on puppet, and I'm a relative puppet newb. I just happened to understand your question :) This is likely of interest to you: