Hi Dan, there's quite a bit. Google for 'masterless puppet howto' to find a couple tutorials and discussions that are popular. Add 'git' to the search string for more quality options...
The main benefits are - scalability - pull model -- see http://www.infrastructures.org/bootstrap/pushpull.shtml The main drawbacks are - loss of some dynamic configuration features -- like the configuration database, what'sitsname? - all clients see the whole configuration -- however I would be personally unwilling to rely too much on this feature of the puppet server Myself, I "seeded" my architecture with those tutorials, and wrote the ppg wrapper/scaffolding/infra I discussed above, which adds some good bits that Puppet lacks: - scheduled rollouts (i.e.: make this effective at 3am) - force a specific rollout to happen _now_ (using an ssh loop with an unprivileged account to touch an inotify trigger) Here's a reasonably good thread https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/7ZpAMrMb2NQ cheers, m On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Dan Ng <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just came across the dynamic of running Puppet in a masterless mode. Was > there a tutorial that you had followed in order to configure it that way? > > Thanks! > > > On Monday, November 4, 2013 12:21:14 AM UTC-5, Gonzalo wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm running Puppet in masterless mode and trying to make Puppet dashboard >> play nice with it in this non-standard setup. >> >> I'd love to hear how other people are doing this. The process I have in >> mind is: >> >> 1) Run "puppet apply" from cron on each node >> 2) Rsync (using --remove-sent-files) the reports from each node's >> /var/lib/puppet/reports dir back to the puppet dashboard server >> 3) Run rake:import >> >> The issue I'm having is that rake:import will create a new failed task for >> every report that already exists in the database. It does skip them, but I >> don't want to be notified it's a failed task when it skips them. I was >> thinking of deleting old reports, but given that they get imported by the >> delayed task workers, it is hard to know which reports have been processed >> to avoid deleting a report that hasn't been imported yet. >> >> If I can find a way to stop it reporting skipped reports as failed tasks, >> then I should be OK. >> >> Any ideas? Anyone else running Puppet dashboard with masterless Puppet? >> >> - GS > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1ba01e3a-f206-4aca-b7ab-79e924d05d81%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- martin.langh...@gmail.com - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACPiFCLC9jSgiHwJhjae6CttpPpEVGPEXZ3i_-X4-fcajtPmqA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
