[Puppet Users] Re: Handling ENC / Class interface changes

2011-08-10 Thread Oliver Hookins
Thanks for the replies so far from all. It does seem like it is both a problem with the fact that I decided to explicitly version our application modules and provide a mechanism for tieing configuration blueprints in the ENC side to the version of the application module in use, but no such

[Puppet Users] Handling ENC / Class interface changes

2011-08-08 Thread Oliver Hookins
Hi all, Recently I've hit against this problem which is proving to be a formidable foe. We have an in-house developed ENC and use parameterised classes just about everywhere and as a result enjoy a fairly flexible way of handing out configurations and very well- defined interfaces between

[Puppet Users] Re: Local puppet forge repository

2010-11-01 Thread Oliver Hookins
On Oct 18, 10:22 pm, Carl Caum carl.c...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to run your own puppetforgerepository? We are interested versioning and distributing our modules the same way we do our custom RPMs.   We want to use puppet-module-tool and configure it to point to our local repository.

[Puppet Users] Re: Good usage of --parseonly

2010-10-06 Thread Oliver Hookins
INCROND (http://linux.die.net/man/8/incrond- crontab like) or homemade scripts (perl, python, etc). Read more at:http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8478 Thanks, that's a good suggestion that I had considered before. I'll look into it. []s 2010/10/4 Oliver Hookins ohook...@gmail.com

[Puppet Users] Good usage of --parseonly

2010-10-04 Thread Oliver Hookins
Part of my rollout scripts contains a puppet --parseonly check of all of our manifests and modules to do basic pre-runtime checks of syntax (or so I thought). It basically finds all applicable modules and echos an import $MODULENAME for each to the standard input of puppet, to which I also pass

[Puppet Users] Re: Dashboard database optimization

2010-09-16 Thread Oliver Hookins
On Sep 16, 12:38 pm, Ben Tullis b...@tiger-computing.co.uk wrote: Thanks for the response, but I think you've misunderstood the first bit. Rails logs are not rotated by default. The rails world would use a   capistrano task:

[Puppet Users] Re: cucumber-puppet and environments

2010-09-15 Thread Oliver Hookins
On Sep 15, 11:01 am, Alan Barrett a...@cequrux.com wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Bruce Richardson wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:34:00AM -0400, Ryan Coleman wrote: Hi Oliver, try: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Using_Multiple_Environ... I've never been fond of the way

[Puppet Users] Re: cucumber-puppet and environments

2010-09-15 Thread Oliver Hookins
On Sep 15, 5:53 pm, Nikolay Sturm goo...@erisiandiscord.de wrote: * Oliver [2010-09-14]: What mechanism is there (or is needed) in order to make cucumber-puppet aware of the environment (or at least modulepath) settings? The environment is just another node fact. As long as you don't use

[Puppet Users] Re: Inherit VS include

2010-08-31 Thread Oliver Hookins
On Aug 31, 10:09 am, Kenneth Holter kenneho@gmail.com wrote: Hello all. Are there any rule of thumb regarding using inherits versus include? For example, if I'm creating the class syslog::base which should servere as a building block for syslog clients, should I go for a class

[Puppet Users] Unit test standards, and feature request #2866

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Hookins
of this particular feature? Evidently nobody has decided to follow up my question on the actual feature request. Best Regards, Oliver Hookins -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com