Thanks for all the feedback everyone. I'll be working on a second draft and getting it up on the wiki soon!
--Paul On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:06 AM, David Schmitt<da...@dasz.at> wrote: > > Paul Lathrop wrote: >> Hi Puppeteers, >> >> I spent some time tonight making a first pass at what I hope will >> eventually be a good replacement for the current "Puppet Best >> Practices" page on the wiki. I know this needs *tons of work, but I >> hit a good pausing point and decided it was time to ask for feedback >> and contributions. The idea here is to provide some overall guidelines >> to help newcomers to Puppet establish good habits as well as get the >> most out of Puppet, and especially to highlight some common mistakes >> and how to avoid them. >> >> Please take a look and flame away. I need feedback, both positive and >> negative, as well as input as to what the Best Practices actually are >> (Volcane, I'm looking at you!). I especially need to flesh out that >> final section. > > Thanks for picking up that work. It's good to see movement here! > > There are some thing I'm missing: > > * How to arrange modules, what constitutes a module? > > There's this quip "If you ever wonder whether X is running, X should be > a module." Also, some thoughts about how using external modules works? > > * Environments and the workflow surrounding them > > There is already UsingMultipleEnvironments, which has all the technical > stuff. Perhaps a few sentences about how to use the production, testing, > and development environment. > > * An overview of the recommended filesystem layout > > What goes to /etc/puppet, where to put modules and modules in different > environments. > > * Using an external node classifier to split configuration > (node+data+class list) and manifests (modules and manifests) > > * Recommend to replace complete config files instead of "editing" it > in-place. > > > > Thank you again for your time and work! > > Regards, DavidS > > > > -- "My pants growl with the hunger of a thousand bubblebees. And it feels like a Koala crapped a rainbow in my brain!" -MasterShakezula --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
