Thanks you both for the answers, I'm going to spend some time parsing them :-P
Let me clarify - I'm not looking for help or consulting in implementing Puppet on a particular site right now. The objective of my work now is just to make the company aware this exist and see if it is something useful to have in our arsenal, so to say. So my request is not for somebody to help me migrate to Puppet - is to just have a chat (30 minutes or less) with somebody that is actually using it and get the feeling of the tool being used as part of your workflow, not just learning the syntax of the language and things like that. I'm suso on IRC so probably you will see me there pestering you :-P How do you deal with dynamic changes or process (been a theme of discussion >> lately here) and having Puppet enforcing a "state"? > > One time activities are usually not done via puppet, and most people use > ssh for this kind of things. > Puppet goal is to enforce a state, so that's the default behavior. > > Yes, but with this kind of automation tools there is always the worry that whatever manual work you are doing now is going to be obliterated later or interfered during your work. So I guess if you have are a "Puppet shop", you have a different way to go about things that if you just have N servers around handconfigured and go SSH for everything. When you get a request or find the need to do a change, you try to see if its something to change on a manifest,or just a one time task to run in between puppetd runs, or to have an schedule defining a maintenance window, or... Do changes get to the "Puppet admins" first to check that? I guess having your infrastructure managed by Puppet makes you have to think more about what is that "state" that you are mantaining and what are the deviations for that state that can happen and how to manage them... -- ------------------------------ Jesús Couto F. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
