We use puppet for all our clients - it's excellent.
Is there anything specific you're struggling with?
Portability was the biggest issue I've run into so far.
e.g. I can use the User and SSHAuthorizedKey options on Linux and
Solaris, but they fail to work fully under OpenBSD. (e.g. adding
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Simon Strange wrote:
Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share?
We use it at work. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I see the
benefits but never quite have enough time to make our config pretty and
easy to use.
The
On 09/08/2009 10:06, Simon Huggins wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Simon Strange wrote:
Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share?
We use it at work. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I see the
benefits but never quite have
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 09:01:57 +0100 (+0100), Simon Strange wrote:
I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm
interested in using puppet to control it.
Puppet is _wonderful_. As for most automation tools, it's definitely
one of those things where you have to invest time up
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 07:08:23 + (+), Andy Smith wrote:
Can you elaborate more as to how you manage SSH keys? I've seen a
couple of ways but never really liked them..
I've been using the ssh-ldap patches with great success for some time
now. Drop people's ssh keys into LDAP (ones
I've recently inherited ownership of a small network, and I'm
interested in using puppet to control it.
In the past I've used CFEngine with success, so perhaps I should stick
to what I know. But it does seem that puppet offers a few nice
things, and is the new-cool. The only obvious problem is
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:17:28PM +, Andy Smith wrote:
I believe there was a hantslug presentation about puppet a while
back, sadly I was unable to attend and don't remember who gave it.
Perhaps it's on the wiki?
Speaking of presentations, R.I.Pienaar (who is UK-based) recently gave a
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:01:57 +0100, si...@pseudo-anonymous.com said:
Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share?
We use it at work to manage just over 100 servers and it works well. Tips?
Yes: start small. Start with something really, really simple, then slowly
build
