Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Application Server Deployment

2010-10-25 Thread ajinkya prabhune
Hi, So what do u thing is good and better than Puppet ? thanks On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Nigel Kersten ni...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: I highly suggest you refrain from using Puppet to manage service-level

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Application Server Deployment

2010-10-25 Thread James Turnbull
ajinkya prabhune wrote: Hi, So what do u thing is good and better than Puppet ? thanks I second Nigel's question. I know a number of people who deploy Java, Ruby, PHP, etc, etc applications with Puppet. Regards James Turnbull -- Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com C: 503-734-8571

Re: [Puppet Users] show dependency tree?

2010-10-25 Thread David Schmitt
On 10/22/2010 5:26 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Matt Wise w...@wiredgeek.net mailto:w...@wiredgeek.net wrote: I'd really like to see puppet-dashboard do this dynamically show you these graphs by pointing puppet dashboard to a local copy of your puppet

[Puppet Users] Re: Accessing Facter in other languages than Ruby?

2010-10-25 Thread macwall
On Oct 25, 2:36 am, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: I see Matthew's concerns about security, but I'd argue you simply wouldn't take input that gets used in actual commands. Facter doesn't do this, and a wrapper script wouldn't either. That's a good point and has started me

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Accessing Facter in other languages than Ruby?

2010-10-25 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- macwall mattmacw...@gmail.com wrote: LOL, we're already using MCollective, this is for a project I'm working on that will (eventually) enable us to interface MCollective with other languages from a client-basis, not just an agent. would you mind elaborating on this? Other language

Re: [Puppet Users] Problem overriding file resource in 2.6.x

2010-10-25 Thread Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale
Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale arnaud.go...@ircam.fr writes: What am I doing wrong? I had an old puppetd process running while it should have been killed weeks ago. I have killed it this afternoon and it looks like everything is working properly now. -- Arnaud -- You received this message because you

MCollective Client Languages (WAS Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Accessing Facter in other languages than Ruby?)

2010-10-25 Thread lists
Quoting R.I.Pienaar r...@devco.net: - macwall mattmacw...@gmail.com wrote: LOL, we're already using MCollective, this is for a project I'm working on that will (eventually) enable us to interface MCollective with other languages from a client-basis, not just an agent. would you mind

[Puppet Users] Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread Alaric
Hi folks, This may be a totally dumb question, but hey.. sometimes I'm dumb recently I've been rocking template's like a crazy person.. and I'm wondering, is there any reason why I shouldn't use templates for *all* files I want to manage, rather then have some files defined under files

[Puppet Users] Custom Fact Location Issues

2010-10-25 Thread Tomehb
Hi Guys, I have tried changing the default location of puppet facts /var/lib/ puppet/facts to /etc/puppet/development/modules/custom/lib/facter . However, it fails to check the new location, and still pulls the facts from the default location. My puppet.conf is as follows: [main]

[Puppet Users] Multiple errors on puppet client runs: A section with name updates already exists

2010-10-25 Thread Brad
Hello, I'm currently running Puppet 0.25.5-1 on CentOS 5.5. Everything has been going swimmingly until a couple of weeks ago, when I began receiving errors on one of my nodes. The node in question is also my puppetmaster, but the errors seem client-related. The errors are: err:

[Puppet Users] Installing Software via Puppet

2010-10-25 Thread Maciej Skrzetuski
Hello there, I would like to install software on my puppets. I have two installation options: - RPMs lying on the master - silent installation routine lying on the master What is the standard/pattern for puppet to install software from the puppet master if it is not installed? Kind regards

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing Software via Puppet

2010-10-25 Thread Patrick
On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Maciej Skrzetuski wrote: Hello there, I would like to install software on my puppets. I have two installation options: - RPMs lying on the master - silent installation routine lying on the master What is the standard/pattern for puppet to install software

Re: [Puppet Users] Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Alaric paxindust...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, This may be a totally dumb question, but hey.. sometimes I'm dumb recently I've been rocking template's like a crazy person.. and I'm wondering, is there any reason why I shouldn't use templates for *all*

Re: [Puppet Users] Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread Patrick
On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Alaric wrote: Hi folks, This may be a totally dumb question, but hey.. sometimes I'm dumb recently I've been rocking template's like a crazy person.. and I'm wondering, is there any reason why I shouldn't use templates for *all* files I want to

Re: [Puppet Users] Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Patrick kc7...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Alaric wrote: Hi folks, This may be a totally dumb question, but hey.. sometimes I'm dumb recently I've been rocking template's like a crazy person.. and I'm wondering, is there any

[Puppet Users] Re: Installing Software via Puppet

2010-10-25 Thread Maciej Skrzetuski
Do you mean hosting your own yum repository in your own network? That is not a bad idea but it would be easier to just copy the files over to the puppets and then just rpm -ihv package, wouldn't it? Another question in this context is: How can I install software (for example RPMs) on all my

Re: [Puppet Users] Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Nigel Kersten ni...@puppetlabs.com wrote: Also, in case it wasn't clear, there are fundamental differences between file/template and a source specified file like puppet:///foo/bar The former will: * be shipped as part of the catalog * always be shipped to the client in the

Re: MCollective Client Languages (WAS Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Accessing Facter in other languages than Ruby?)

2010-10-25 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: We have a team of system administrators within our organisation who love the look and power of MCollective but are currently unable to utilise it fully as they don't know ruby (for some reason Python is the language of choice here!). I'm writing a

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Installing Software via Puppet

2010-10-25 Thread Todd Zullinger
Maciej Skrzetuski wrote: Do you mean hosting your own yum repository in your own network? That is not a bad idea but it would be easier to just copy the files over to the puppets and then just rpm -ihv package, wouldn't it? No, it wouldn't be. You lose yum's ability to install depndencies for

[Puppet Users] Passenger Problems

2010-10-25 Thread Taylor Leese
Hi all, I'm new to Puppet and I'm trying to setup a puppet master and a client on Amazon EC2 using Passenger. I've gone through the steps described here (http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/passenger.html) and here (http://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/tree/master/ext/rack). However, I am still

[Puppet Users] Re: Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread donavan
On Oct 25, 11:13 am, R.I.Pienaar r...@devco.net wrote: In this scenario puppetd will use the old catalog BUT it will still fetch files with source from the master. This is also possible during your VCSs 'update' if /etc/puppet is a workdir. This came up at puppet camp, and I think two groups

[Puppet Users] Re: Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread donavan
On Oct 25, 8:12 am, Alaric paxindust...@gmail.com wrote:  Are there any pro/cons to using templates exclusively? Besides the already mentioned there are some security issues with using the file server from puppet. Richard Crowley covered this a bit in his puppetcamp talk[1]. He also

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread Patrick
On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:55 PM, donavan wrote: On Oct 25, 11:13 am, R.I.Pienaar r...@devco.net wrote: In this scenario puppetd will use the old catalog BUT it will still fetch files with source from the master. This is also possible during your VCSs 'update' if /etc/puppet is a workdir. This