Excerpts from Adam Gandelman's message of Wed Mar 30 13:04:37 -0700 2011: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:10:47AM -0400, Douglas Stanley wrote: > > > It's been an ongoing topic for while. I think we really have the > > > opportunity to differentiate Ubuntu here. In particular, preseedable > > > d-i integration would make Ubuntu deployment a completely hands-off > > > operation. Again, count me in for that one! > > > > > > > I'd also like to see this, as well as some possible pre-canned > > recipes/manifests. Even if they were just in an extra docs package, or > > on a dedicated wiki section or something like that. > > > > Doug > > > > I've been thinking about this, too. It would be great if users who > are creating a new puppet-centric infrastructure can start by creating > a puppet master node with the puppetmaster + new modules package. > The modules package could contain pre-written modules for common services > that define and take care of installation, configuration, management, etc. > If done correctly, the entire environment could be in-place and waiting > before any additional systems are booted. Another option would be to have > additional puppet-* or puppetmasterd-module-* packages, each containing > a module for a specific service or need. >
The logical choice for this would be to take the stuff from puppet forge http://forge.puppetlabs.com/ And package it all, or at the very least, make sure its very easy and obvious how to get the modules available there. > Initially it felt like Puppet was still so new that it was difficult > to find defined best-practices, but with the publication of the Puppet > Style Guide ( http://www.puppetlabs.com/blog/a-question-of-style/ ) it > seems it wouldn't be too hard to develop and ship manifests and modules > that meet the standards.o I don't know that we want to get in to the business of developing manifests. It has proved difficult to keep them generic enough to be much more than templates. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
