This book : http://www.packtpub.com/puppet-3-beginners-guide/book is
describing a masterless setup with git. As all books about puppet, the
setup is linux based.
I dontt' have any experience with windows.
Grts
Jo
On 01/09/2014 06:54 PM, pskovshu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
We have a number of servers that we would like to manage remotely -
mainly to set the servers up with relevant software/files when they
are first set up. Additionally, we would like to make changes after
the initial set up. For now, we would like to concentrate only on new
servers and leave existing servers unmanaged. All servers are Windows
ones with a mix of 2003 and 2008.
I've been playing with Puppet Open Source for a number of weeks now
and I have a few questions. I am considering doing a masterless setup
as we generally want to do a one time set up and most of the servers
are different. There are a number of things that they share, such as
hosts file but only some servers require, say, Apache installed. It
needs to be easy to use and generally idiot-proof.
I understand that with masterless set up, I simply need to run puppet
apply <file.pp> on each server and that's fine. To do it remotely, I
am thinking of using something like psexec tool from Microsoft.
However, it's not exactly fool proof. Yes, there are a couple of
front-ends for psexec but I would ideally like something web UI based.
I could write my own front-end in PHP but I don't want to reinvent the
wheel if something already exists. Is there something web-based that I
am able to kick off "puppet apply" command from? I would ideally like
to run it in Apache under Windows so I can do away with Linux altogether.
I've been battling with getting the likes of passenger working with
the puppet master but essentially gave up as I am not overly hot with
Linux and I've been getting a ton of dependency errors (Ruby mainly)
without being able to resolve them. So, that's pretty much out of the
window and partially the reason why I decided to go masterless.
Also, I've seen a few git based solutions but having never used git,
it's a bit over my head and there are no simple step-by-step tutorials
that I could follow.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Alex
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