Hello, I'm currently prototyping the use of Puppet to manage a bunch of home-made applications on a lot of servers. As our applications evolves frequently and multiples versions can be used at the same time, we use classes that include version in their name, like "myApplication_1-2-0"
A typical application class like "myApplication_1-2-0" contains for example a package to install, some configuration files as templates, a crontab, a service definition and a mount point When I want to deploy version 1-3-0 of my application on a node, to replace version 1-2-0, the standard way to do with puppet, as I understand it, would be : - node initially contains "include myApplication_1-2-0" - I edit node to contains "include myApplication_1-2-0::remove" where myApplication_1-2-0::remove is a class that removes everything myApplication_1-2-0 installed - I apply the config to node - I edit the node to contains "include myApplication_1-3-0" - I apply the config to node But on node, there is the localconfig.yaml file (usually in /var/lib/ puppet/) that contains everything needed to know what should be removed when myApplication_1-2-0 is installed. I was thinking of automating this step like this : - retrieve config from master - retrieve local config (in localconfig.yaml) - if an application has not the same version on the master and locally then a) change everything to absent for version which is locally installed b) apply this, so local version is removed c) then apply config from master, so new version is installed Do you think it's a good approach ? If not, do you know an alternate ways to manage applications that have several versions ? thanks for your answers nicolas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
