Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a newbie (specifically Virtualmin/CSF related)

2012-11-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Jakov Sosic jso...@srce.hr wrote: On 11/20/2012 03:12 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote: This can be mitigated, of course, by using 'ensure=installed', but then that means upgrades are painful. Why? You can always use cexec or mcollective with some kind of custom

[Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a newbie (specifically Virtualmin/CSF related)

2012-11-20 Thread Laurence Cope
So does that mean I still have to manually setup server and install what I need, then just use Puppet to keep them all configured the way I want them? So I would still copy my virtual servers to create a new one (because it takes too long to setup a virtual server from scratch and install

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a newbie (specifically Virtualmin/CSF related)

2012-11-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Laurence Cope amitywebsoluti...@gmail.com wrote: So does that mean I still have to manually setup server and install what I need, then just use Puppet to keep them all configured the way I want them? So I would still copy my virtual servers to create a new one

[Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a newbie (specifically Virtualmin/CSF related)

2012-11-20 Thread Laurence Cope
you will need to create your own Yum repository, have Puppet configure yum to make use of that repo, then create a manifest that installs the package. Ah right... this bit helps a lot. never thought of creating an own repo, that makes sense now. so if its in a repo puppet can do it. I

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a newbie (specifically Virtualmin/CSF related)

2012-11-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Laurence Cope amitywebsoluti...@gmail.com wrote: you will need to create your own Yum repository, have Puppet configure yum to make use of that repo, then create a manifest that installs the package. Ah right... this bit helps a lot. never thought of creating

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a newbie (specifically Virtualmin/CSF related)

2012-11-20 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a...: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Laurence Cope amitywebsoluti...@gmail.com wrote: you will need to create your own Yum repository, have Puppet configure yum to make use of that repo, then create a manifest that installs

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Seeking some Puppet advice for a newbie (specifically Virtualmin/CSF related)

2012-11-20 Thread Jakov Sosic
On 11/20/2012 03:12 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote: (there was a fairly recent thread in this group when PuppetLabs released puppet-3.0 into the same repository as puppet-2.x. It caught a lot of folks out). I didn't use ensure=latest and didn't plan to upgrade so soo, but was also in trouble