Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread Ohad Levy
not that I'm aware of, but a poor mans solution would be to run puppet via cron, and check which server can be used at that time. e.g. get load of all puppet servers, and use the least busy one it would be nice to have a DNS SRV record for puppet. Ohad On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Abhishek

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/05/10 4:14 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: not that I'm aware of, but a poor mans solution would be to run puppet via cron, and check which server can be used at that time. e.g. get load of all puppet servers, and use the least busy one it would be

[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.5 - Release Candidate 3 available!

2010-05-14 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Welcome back to the Puppet release cycle for the third outing of 0.25.5 - release candidate number 3. The 0.25.5 release is a maintenance release in the 0.25.x branch. It contains a number of bug fixes but also performance enhancements including

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet-module-apache

2010-05-14 Thread David Schmitt
On 5/12/2010 2:15 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: Hey all, I've open-sources Digg's apache module: http://github.com/plathrop/puppet-module-apache I know this isn't much more advanced than what I've seen a lot of people using. Here's my proposition, though. Let's get all the disparate apache modules

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread Matt Wallace
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 22:53 -0700, Abhishek wrote: Hi, Is there any way to define multiple puppet servers in client configuration so that if my one puppet server is down then my production config changes can be applied from other puppet server. I am using apache and Mongrel for puppet load

Re: [Puppet Users] Provisioning VM in Xen via Puppet - Howto??

2010-05-14 Thread Dan Carley
On 12 May 2010 16:13, Thomas Bellman bell...@nsc.liu.se wrote: [..] I don't create the logical volumes automatically, nor do I partition or create filesystems on them automatically, to lessen the risk of destroying important data. Good info. I do much the same - logical vols are managed by

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:55 PM, josbal joshua.bald...@gmail.com wrote: Have you found a solution to this problem? I am having the same issue after upgrading to puppet 0.25.4 and passenger. The error message im getting is: Error 400 on SERVER: Not authorized to call find on

Re: [Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.5 - Release Candidate 3 available!

2010-05-14 Thread Todd Zullinger
James Turnbull wrote: The release candidate is available at: http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.5rc3.tar.gz For thoae using Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, I've updated the yum repos at: http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/repo/puppet/ Packages for EL 4 - 6 and Fedora 11 - 13 are

[Puppet Users] Re: Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread donavan
On May 13, 10:53 pm, Abhishek abhishek.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way to define multiple puppet servers in client configuration so that if my one puppet server is down then my production config changes can be applied from other puppet server. I am using apache and Mongrel for

[Puppet Users] Re: multiple OS support conventions?

2010-05-14 Thread donavan
On May 12, 1:03 am, Rohan McGovern rohan.mcgov...@nokia.com wrote: I've been doing it like this, for an example module named baselayout:  modules/baselayout/manifests/init.pp:     import *     class baselayout {       case $operatingsystem {         Darwin:   { include baselayout::mac }  

[Puppet Users] Want to talk at the USENIX Configuration Workshop (Boston, Thursday, June 24)

2010-05-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
The afternoon during the USENIX Configuration Management workshop is going to be for set user talks + a barcamp format. Currently the organizers are looking for folks to do some user topics, such as How I used X to do Foo, or Automating a Blarg or ... maybe you've got something more exciting :)

Re: [Puppet Users] Want to talk at the USENIX Configuration Workshop (Boston, Thursday, June 24)

2010-05-14 Thread Joe McDonagh
On 05/14/2010 01:21 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: The afternoon during the USENIX Configuration Management workshop is going to be for set user talks + a barcamp format. Currently the organizers are looking for folks to do some user topics, such as How I used X to do Foo, or Automating a Blarg or

Re: [Puppet Users] Join AD using Likewise

2010-05-14 Thread Tom Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/10 23:40, Taylor wrote: Hi All, I'm reading the docs and various references available for Puppet but can't seem to find a better way of accomplishing my goal of binding my Linux Servers to Active Directory. (Please don't berate me for

[Puppet Users] Jobs: TomTom recruiting at Puppet Camp Europe

2010-05-14 Thread Douglas Fraser
(As there is no puppet-jobs list) TomTom Services Delivery is currently looking for new staff with Puppet experience at all levels from operations to architecture. Our Technical Operations team is based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and manages a large environment of Red Hat servers. A

[Puppet Users] Re: Join AD using Likewise

2010-05-14 Thread dbs
Just to put my $0.02 in... the 'exec' command is similar in my setup - but I do a little bit of maintenance as well (like a customized lsassd.conf file) - Note I also unwrapped the .rpm files so I could put them in a serviced repo... : class likewise { $rpmlist = [ likewise-lwio,

RE: [Puppet Users] Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread Kinzel, David
Hi, Is there any way to define multiple puppet servers in client configuration so that if my one puppet server is down then my production config changes can be applied from other puppet server. I am using apache and Mongrel for puppet load balancing. Shouldn't your load balancing take care of

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Kinzel, David david.kin...@encana.com wrote: Hi, Is there any way to define multiple puppet servers in client configuration so that if my one puppet server is down then my production config changes can be applied from other puppet server. I am using apache and

Re: [Puppet Users] Want to talk at the USENIX Configuration Workshop (Boston, Thursday, June 24)

2010-05-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Somewhere in the 20-40 minute range. I don't think it's been quite decided yet. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Joe McDonagh joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/14/2010 01:21 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote: The afternoon during the USENIX Configuration Management workshop is going to be for

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Cannot make autosign works

2010-05-14 Thread Michael DeHaan
Hmm Does this thread help you? We should fix the error message, also, IMHO. http://markmail.org/message/aydpf243lu6uub5a#query:uninitialized%20constant%20Puppet%3A%3ANetwork%3A%3AAuthStore+page:1+mid:lelvuzkis2xzruyc+state:results --Michael On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Eric

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: External Nodes

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Lathrop
You are getting a bunch of misguided answers to this. I'm also perplexed by your assertion that external nodes requires you to write custom scripts to parse node manifests. No, you cannot put resources directly into nodes when you are using external nodes. In practice, this hasn't mattered; you

[Puppet Users] Re: Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread Ken
I've been waiting forhttp://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1866 (Support for specification of multiple servers). 3669 looks to duplicate a lot of the functionality. The obvious difference being static config or SRV records providing the list of available hosts. Personally I'd be pleased with

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Lathrop
Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server. This won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it? it does, the facts yaml file is created before the external node classifier is called ;) Whoa. This should be called out in the external node docs, as I simply

[Puppet Users] Re: External Nodes

2010-05-14 Thread Ken
What you gain is truly node-scoped variables (AWESOME). Contrary to Ken's assertion about global variables, instead you have your external node script place variables into the output YAML; these variables are then available to all the classes and resources that apply to that node. I

RE: [Puppet Users] Re: External Nodes

2010-05-14 Thread Baker, Luke Jefferson
Speaking of external nodes.. Any decent tutorials out there for someone that has no idea where to start? ;) -Original Message- From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 4:28 PM To: Puppet Users Subject: [Puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Multiple Puppet Servers

2010-05-14 Thread donavan
On May 14, 1:39 pm, Ken k...@bob.sh wrote: Also I just realised - if the client does it using SRV with weights and priorities - you get global server load balancing built in. Cool bananas. ken. That exact functionality is actually a big benefit to me. As an example we have multiple geo

[Puppet Users] Re: Cannot make autosign works

2010-05-14 Thread Eric
Ok, I may got what went wrong. Since I'm using puppet in a ubuntu distro, I installed it from repositories, which setup everything to run with puppet user, including file permissions. But after installing it, I only run the puppetmaster it with sudo and --no-daemonize to see messages and stuff.

[Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-14 Thread josbal
Hi Nigel, Yes i am using environments. I have a production (default) environement and a testing environment. All my hosts us the production environment currently. Here is what my puppetmasterd puppet.conf file looks like: [main] # Where Puppet stores dynamic and growing data. # The

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.comwrote: Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server. This won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it? it does, the facts yaml file is created before the external node classifier is

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Unable to retrieve files from puppet server (Errror 400)

2010-05-14 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:11 PM, josbal joshua.bald...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nigel, Yes i am using environments. I have a production (default) environement and a testing environment. All my hosts us the production environment currently. Here is what my puppetmasterd puppet.conf file looks

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-14 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/05/10 6:42 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote: Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server. This won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it? it does, the facts yaml file is created before the external node classifier is

Re: [Puppet Users] Have I found a bug with variables in nodes?

2010-05-14 Thread Dan Bode
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Paul Lathrop paul.lath...@gmail.comwrote: Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server. This won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it? it does,