On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:13 PM, GordonJB <g.bonth...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a server which we're running a lot of VM's on, including a Puppet > master and various nodes under puppet management. When we add new VM's with > VSphere, the new nodes have dynamic IP's. > > What we're looking to do is have each VM have a static IP and have these > automatically assigned from a pool of addresses. I am looking in to Puppet > to do this (so i.e. when we add a new puppet node, it is given a static IP > address). Is this something that's possible? If so, how would I go about it? > I looked into Foreman, but honestly I could never quite figure out if it was > what I needed, or get it set up on a server.
You could use Foreman, as it can manage DHCP for you, but if you're not planning to use any of its other features, its probably a bit of an overkill. All you need is a DHCP server, where you'd configure your range of static IP addresses that you want your VMs to sit in, and presumably a list of MAC address to IP address mappings. There are a number of modules on the puppet forge (http://forge.puppetlabs.com/) concerning DHCP that you could either make use of directly, or use as inspiration for your own. Regards, Matt. -- 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.
