So does that mean I still have to manually setup server and install what I need, then just use Puppet to keep them all configured the way I want them?
So I would still copy my virtual servers to create a new one (because it takes too long to setup a virtual server from scratch and install everything I need). I was hoping to find some sort of "server setup" automation tool so I can create a new CentOS VM for example, then just have something install all the software I need automatically. Thanks On Monday, November 19, 2012 7:57:33 PM UTC, Laurence Cope wrote: > > HI > > Forgive me if this is such a newbie issue. I am learning Puppet to manage > several servers we have. The tutorials on manifests etc. seem a bit > simplistic for I want, if what I want can be achieved with Puppet. > > Our servers are web hosting servers. We use Virtualmin (and Webmin) to > manage the server and virtual servers. installing Virtualmin takes care of > installing all the software required for virtual servers and websites, like > Apache MySQL, PHP, BIND, Postfix etc. So we dont install those separately. > Virtualmin does it. > > To setup a server we create the VPS, install Virtualmin, configure it, > install CSF (Firewall), configure it and then our monitoring system agent. > This is the minimum. We may want to then install something like Varnish > perhaps, or anything else. At the moment I copy another server and delete > its virtual servers as I have everything configured. But in time the > configs just move away from each other. So I also want a way to manage all > the configs on all servers, so they are the same. CSF in particular. > > I wondered if all this can be done in Puppet. I have no idea if it can > because I cannot find any examples of this. > > I wondered if this is very possible with Puppet so I can continue to > learn, OR if not then I will give up now as I already spent a while on > this. > > Thanks > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/fsdRJsMHrT8J. 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.
