On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Thomas Bellman <bell...@nsc.liu.se> wrote:
> Running a Puppet server (puppetmasterd) is only essential if you
> are running Puppet in its client-server mode.  You can also run
> Puppet in a stand-alone mode, using the 'puppet' executable.
>
> However, then you need some other way of getting the manifests
> out to the machines, like having the manifests on an NFS server
> which the managed client mounts, or rsync:ing the manifests from
> cron, or doing a 'git fetch; git reset --hard origin' from cron.

Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote an excellent piece on using Git to do just this:

http://bitfieldconsulting.com/scaling-puppet-with-git

Regards,
John
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