[Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Swampcritter
We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning (similar to Satellite/ Spacewalk) along with a customized kickstart template, but also including Puppet to handle the actual configuration of the environment. One thing we need to see is does Puppet have a variable that will deploy one module only

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Craig White
On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Swampcritter wrote: We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning (similar to Satellite/ Spacewalk) along with a customized kickstart template, but also including Puppet to handle the actual configuration of the environment. One thing we need to see is does

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Aaron Grewell
If you really don't want ongoing configuration management then Puppet may not be your tool of choice. Cobbler perhaps? On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Swampcritter wrote: We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:49, Swampcritter mawors...@gmail.com wrote: We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning (similar to Satellite/ Spacewalk) along with a customized kickstart template, but also including Puppet to handle the actual configuration of the environment. One thing we

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Scott Merrill
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Swampcritter mawors...@gmail.com wrote: We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning (similar to Satellite/ Spacewalk) along with a customized kickstart template, but also including Puppet to handle the actual configuration of the environment. One thing we

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Nan Liu
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Swampcritter mawors...@gmail.com wrote: We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning (similar to Satellite/ Spacewalk) along with a customized kickstart template, but also including Puppet to handle the actual configuration of the environment. One thing we

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Dan White
An easy way to avoid messing up a development box as you describe is to not run the puppet client on it. Contrarywise, how about using tags ? http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Using_Tags “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Dan White
- Nan Liu n...@puppetlabs.com wrote: You can use a completely separate bootstrap environment if it's significantly different. # onetime puppet agent --environment bootstrap # later on puppet agent --environment production Or you can use a custom fact. Easiest way is either environment

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet be configured to one-time deployment for modules?

2011-12-20 Thread Ohad Levy
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Swampcritter mawors...@gmail.com wrote: We are developing in-house RHEL VM provisioning (similar to Satellite/ Spacewalk) along with a customized kickstart template, but also including Puppet to handle the actual configuration of the While being biased, I