[Puppet Users] Making a node use a different manifest

Hi, I've inherited an environment that is using Puppet 2.7. We're migrating from one datacenter to another, but we're still running out of the old datacenter. Some of our hardware there is reaching EOL, and it's creating a situation that I, with my limited Puppet experience, am not really sure

Re: [Puppet Users] Making a node use a different manifest

Hi Roger, Yes you can copy the critical node configuration into the spare node's. However, it really does depend on what that critical node does and any special requirements it has. It may have services that might need to be managed across one by one. Or it may require one node to be shutdown

Re: [Puppet Users] Apt: Execute sources before builddep

Hi David, I've seen a setup that has an exec which fires apt-get update. This exec has refreshonly = true. All Apt::Source resources are instantiated via a profile class kicking off create_resources. All Apt::Source resources notify the apt-get update exec. I think something similar to that