'Cloud Provisioner' seems like a funny name if it's only designed to manage Amazon EC2 instances. Why didn't you just call it the 'Amazon Provisioner' ?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > We are happy to announce the first public release candidate of our Puppet > Cloud Provisioner. > > This release is available for download at our Module Forge: > http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/cloud_provisioner<http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/> > > Extensive documentation can be found at: > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/cloud_pack_getting_started.html > > Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an > affected version of 0.6.0rc1: > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/cloud-pack<http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/dashboard> > > > Overview: > > The Puppet Cloud Provisioner was written to make it easier to deploy and > configure instances in EC2 using Puppet. > > It contains the following command line actions: > > puppet node create - Launches a new Amazon EC2 instance. > > puppet node install - Installs Puppet on an EC2 instance. > > puppet node init - Installs Puppet on a machine instance and automatically > signs its certificates. > > puppet node list - Lists deployed EC2 instances in a certain region. > > puppet node terminate - Terminates running EC2 instance. > > > For more detailed information about the available commands, download the > module and run: > > puppet help node > > More Details about the iteration leading up to this release > === > * Add --type option to launch different EC2 instance sizes > * (#7510) Add inline documentation for actions and options > * (#8286) Warn if the payload used with the install action is not a tar.gz > file > * (#8265) Make the platform flag optional and default to 'AWS' (Note, > puppet-provisioner provisions AWS EC2 instances in this release) > * (#7511) Add the ability to launch instances in any EC2 region using the > --region option. The default region is us-east-1 > * (#8157) Improve the feedback of the terminate action by explicitly > stating > the instance has been terminated. > * (#8185) Add a list action to list EC2 instances and their current status. > * (#8343) Print the EC2 instance public DNS name as soon as it is available > * (#8350) Change all output to use Puppet's configured log destination > * (#8348) Add a fingerprint action to make a best effort to obtain the SSH > public host key fingerprint from the launched EC2 instance. > * (#7508) Add the ability to install Puppet using rubygems on a target > system. > * (#7508) Improve the install action using template scripts to install > Puppet > on launched systems. > * (#8403) Replace dependency on uuidgen Mac OS X executable with guid gem. > * (#8422) Catch the exit status of installation script and display an error > if > they're non zero. > * (#8204) Include a puppet enterprise install script that downloads from > S3. > This should improve install times on low bandwidth connections. > * (#8472) Add support for non-root logins when installing puppet on a > target > system. > * (#8493) Rename cloudpack to cloud-provisioner > > -- > Jeff McCune > @0xEFF > Join us for PuppetConf <http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppetconf>, Sept > 22-23 in Portland, OR > > -- > 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. > -- Regards, Douglas Garstang http://www.linkedin.com/in/garstang Email: doug.garst...@gmail.com Cell: +1-805-340-5627 -- 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.
