No response to this? I'm trying to clean up code to eventually move to
3.x, and I'm running into this as well. Have defines with variables and
then templates which reference those variables. How do I explicitly scope
it?
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That doesn't sound like a description of dynamic scoping. Best to show
> examples
>
Sure thing.
class foo {
define add_foo ( $foo_name ) {
file { '/etc/some/file': content => template("foo/file.erb")
}
}
Then in file.erb:
<%= scope.lookupvar('foo::add_foo::foo_name') %>
So that
just do <%= @foo_name %> the vars in the define is local scope, just use
> them
>
This worked great. I'm a little shaky on when I can use @variables. Is
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We have hosts running 2.7 client, a single puppet master, and we're using
Puppet Dashboard for ENC.
What would be a recommended order of operations to get to 3.1 on
client/server, and using PuppetDB instead?
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I have several large lists of nodes which have very dissimilar (almost
random) hostnames, but the exact same puppet definitions. Is it possible
to define them in arrays, and then do something like
node $array_of_nodes {
include foo
include bar
}
node $array_of_nodes2 {
include woz
}
Is
Any plans to get the actual diffs of file changes into puppetdb? Right now
you get the hashes of the buckets on the host, but if diffs could get into
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On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:05:05 AM UTC-8, Ryan Senior wrote:
>
> I've recently added a feature to catalog hashes, similar to what you are
> describing as a sort of debug mode option. It's in master now and should
> be in the next release (1.6). More information is available in the ticke
On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:29:16 AM UTC-8, R.I. Pienaar wrote:
>
>
> the other side of the coin is that often diffs contain sensitive
> information.
>
> I think the default behaviour used to be that these were in reports but it
> just burned many people.
>
That's true. Maybe it could be
On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:59:23 AM UTC-8, Bruce wrote:
>
>
>> I see how to set the central buckets up. Is there a programatic way to
> access that data?
>
Nevermind. Found http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/filebucket.html
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I'm trying to do some interesting javascript integration between grafana
and puppetdb. I'd like a grafana scripted dashboard to to make a puppetdb
API call, to then create a list of hosts for a dashboard. However, this is
a cross-domain request, so browsers don't allow it. With Apache, I
> ensure => stopped,
> enable => false,
> }
Are you trying to have simultaneous stoppage or just save typing? You
can achiev the latter by
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ensure => stopped,
enable => false,
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then in "os/manifests/site.pp" . would I import sudo?
and the second question: How would I create hosts groups? I would like
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> Hello
>
> I'm new to large scale puppet deployment and was ho
other parameters to the puppet client here
PUPPET_EXTRA_OPTS=--waitforcert=500
[root@msukpuppet02 puppet]#
I have checked both systems time is correct perfect and both system
resolve in the dns correctly for both A and PTR records.
I'm using RHEL 6.1 (puppet-0.25.5-1.el6.noarch)
Thanks a
sults in case others have a similar question.
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On Jun 20, 7:30 pm, Ken Barber wrote:
> > Getting back to my ultra simple setup, I'm finding that I can't run
> > "puppetd --test":
> > [root@msukpuppet02 puppet]# puppetd --test
> > err: Could not
lists.
Is this even possible?
On Jun 20, 5:50 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Bruce Bushby wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello
>
> > I'm new to large scale puppet deployment and was hoping the list could
> > of
eciate
that's quite something of a redesign and would make optimisation more
difficult (at lest, starting from where we are now).
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your nodes. That, though, is
only hiding the problem and still means much more noise than is
necessary in the communication between the ECN and Puppet (which is
still a potential source of error, as the same datum transmitted many
times is more likely to be corrupted/distorted in one of those
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here is more than one way to do this. What kind of conditions woud you
be testing for?
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exist already). The Unix user creation tools
will copy the /etc/skel files into the right place when Puppet invokes
them.
This only fails if you need different dotfiles (differing by content
and/or name) for different users. If you don't, simple win
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doesn't leave you much choice if you
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re they people in
another department, customers or what?) and what are their skills?
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> EXEC?
No. Notify and subscribe set up the same relationship, just like before
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should be DRY and a potential source of error. Still, puppet's the best
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online documentation (which is autogenerated), "Set to
present to add to fstab but not change mount/unmount status "
Which is the opposite of what you say it is doing. But I believe you,
because I know I've seen this behaviour reported before, although it may
have been on this list
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 08:55:34AM -0400, Rob McBroom wrote:
> I've added a use case to the bug report.
>
> On Oct 1, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
> > According to the online documentation (which is autogenerated), "Set to
> > present to add to
) within a scope and so make it undefined for the template.
It would be a very useful thing to be able to do; makes for much cleaner
code. Have I missed something?
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 03:18:44PM +0200, Peter Meier wrote:
>
> about how many files are we talking under the hierarchy of the recurse
> file resources? and how big are they?
And which filesystem type. Some are much more painful to walk than
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of handling this our should I resort to basic sh
> > scripting to accommodate this?
>
> @reboot if your cron supports that?
If it doesn't, every Linux distribution and *nix has a set of
initscripts (rc scripts on BSDs) that run only on boot. Just run the
puppet (rather than pup
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 02:06:29PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> I think it would be reasonable of puppet not to log the tidying of files
> which are not actually tidied. Do people agree? In which case I'll
> file a bug report. Or have I missed a clean way of resolving this?
iles is being logged. And because it is
imaginary, and the files remain in place, it's logged on *every* run.
>I hope this general rule helps:
>
> If puppet is logging something about a resource every run AND not
> changing anything AND not failing, I think you should file a bug.
.
Do you have an example that would make a more direct case for puppet
having the kind of mechanism you're looking for?
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was a good one).
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Is the data itself used in configuring the host, or is it just the
presence of current data that has an effect on how/when puppet runs?
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do this for you quite easily) or
have logwatch track it. The benefits of this are a) log redundancy,
b) you get to see what the client is doing even when the puppetmaster is
down (or not visible to the client) and c) less load on the puppetmaster
(logging can become a significant extra load if you
vide you with a way of managing parallel
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:07:27AM -0400, Disconnect wrote:
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> Note that I didn't reply to the OP, I replied to Nigel's sarcasm.
>
You could take this up with one of the Debian puppet package
maintainers. Oh, but then you already have...
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e of your monit module, you'll have to make
changes twice: once in the lenny version, once in the squeeze version.
You have so many duplicate classes that you're bound to slip somewhere
and make the change in one version and not in the other (or do it
slightly differently in the other).
rned
> 1:"
What happens if you run
/usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/bash -c "Full Name" -d /u/user1 -m user1
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litle confused to see no package dependencies in
those modules - really, a module should be a self-contained unit that
contains everything that describes the core function. Even if you
decide you want a special package-handling module (which can look
attractive when you first come to Puppet but rea
upon?
>
> I probably missed a configuration directive.
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Reports_And_Reporting
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> How can i determinate from one class if another class applied to the
> this node?
Use the defined() function.
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resource in class A fails. Is this true in the second example? I
actually hope not; if it is true, stages have to be used very carefully
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include samba::winbind
}
}
nsswitch.conf.erb
passwd: files <% if winbind_integration == true %>winbind<% end %> ldap
nsswitch.conf.erb
It's not the most elegant solution (not the last bit, anyway) but it
works and if you can't trust yourself to set the
uder { 'setup': }
}
class child inherits base {
Includer['setup'] { include => false }
}
-
I wouldn't do it that way unless there were other specific benefits to
the define, though. The varia
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:20:10AM -0700, jcbollinger wrote:
>
> On Oct 18, 4:38 am, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > No, you can't uninclude a class.
>
> Right.
>
> > > Is the only way to do this to inherit the base class and override all
> > > it
is when you have to decide
whether to deploy and configure individual Java applications to JOnAS,
or how much of the configuration is done by puppet, how much through the
JOnAS console. People have very different philosphical approaches to
that. Nice to have the choice, though.
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.pp for diff porjects sharing main site.pp. Is
> puppet evaluating site..p hiericaly? Or all site.pp are evaluated with
> same importance.
You're going to have to explain that in a little more detail. It's not
clear how you have this organised.
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nes
its own defaults for modules2"? Is it posssible that site2.pp imports
modules2? And that you have a bunch of classes defined in site2.pp?
Because if that's the case, I have to tell you that the defaults in
site2.pp are irrelevant. What counts is what the defaults are in the
scope
t wins. If there is no conflict, they are added
together. If you go back to my example, I set a default of "ensure =
file" at the top level. Because none of the later defaults had an
"ensure" parameter, all files inherited that default. I also set "mode
= 750"
e genuine keywords. But if you're telling me
that the community is not just proposing to remove dynamic variable
scope but also to remove the ability to say "if { include
class }", not provide any alternatives and force people to have to
clumsily override every resource in a class wh
damage, so to speak.
This is more than semantic quibbling about how to label different
states; inheriting and overriding a more complex state to impose a
simpler state is not the same as defaulting to the simpler state.
So in my situation, "if { include class }" works very well.
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os_service type have "use" and
"register" parameters, because they are useless without the ability to
attach names to services in the generated nagios config.
Hopefully I am just missing something and can be pointed patiently to
the way to do what I want.
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:16:39PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> desired behaviour, why does the nagios_service type have "use" and
> "register" parameters, because they are useless without the ability to
> attach names to services in the generated nagios
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:16:39PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> It seems that the nagios_service type will not write out the "name"
> property of nagios service objects. I had thought this was an oversight
> or a bug, till I saw this thread:
>
> http://www.
#x27;s own name. I then set certname and certdnsnames in the puppetmaster
config and start it up - a certificate with the right CN will be created.
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> Hello, Bruce. At now we have hard dependence between file storage, db
> server and appserver. If it chain broken at any phase we get the
> message from zabbix.
But that's not a problem. Zabbix is monitoring software: it *sh
perfectly possible to deploy java applications in a way
which allows them to cope with the temporary absence of a database
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> seem to when we log in and check by hand, so I don't know why puppet
> is failing.
nsscache is probably at fault. Try removing it from nsswitch on
a machine which has shown this problem and then see how that affects
things.
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try taking a copy of /var/lib/puppet
before you remove, then compare the contents when you reinstall. May
help you find the problem.
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> > nsscache is probably at fault. Try removing it from nsswitch on
> > a machine which has shown this problem and then see how that affects
> > th
tablish the default for any user resources
declared within Puppet. It would have no effect on users created
outside of puppet with names not used in Puppet.
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and then
user { 'at':
managed => true
}
Is there some reason you don't want that? Hmm. Are you perhaps
working under the mistaken assumption that a User defaults declaration
will affect all users on the box? Because the truth is that
opy the file; write it. So do
content => file( whatever )
rather than
source => 'puppet:///whatever'
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If there's a version of 2.6 where that fix has gone in, you need that
version. If not, you could try applying the patch yourself ;)
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e used from the class's namespace.
> The alternative is to do them separately and pass in the same
> information that I already passed in to the class, which seems messier
> than just providing them from the class's namespace.
I think there may be a misplaced word in there; it does
knew somebody was going to say that. I don't much like the idea
of ruby manifests; it seems to turn Puppet's design upside down. I try
to reduce the direct use of Ruby in my puppet configurations to an
absolute minimum.
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ation consists of specifying which resources you do or don't
want present in which circumstances. Most of the rest of it is about
defining which resources depend on which others (e.g. this running
application depends on that configuration file). You describe how a
system should look and Puppet
e, and the "purge =>
true" line would otherwise remove them)). Note also that I don't need
to specify the values of $fqdn and $hostname, because these are "facts"
which puppet can find out for itself (I do specify $primary_ipaddress in
this example, because a host may
ernal Nodes, which would
scale better for you than describing all 6000 nodes in a text file.
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:19:03AM -0800, trey85stang wrote:
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>
> Now does puppet allow any variable substitution?
I do urge you to stop thinking in terms of scripts. It doesn't map well
onto the way that Puppet works. If you
7;/bin/' on it so that puppetd can find /bin/sh, in my
experience. When you run puppet rather than puppetd, it's inheriting
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I did tell him how to do it, anyway. Can't say fairer than that.
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> with yum dependency resolution and the dependencies as defined in the
> manifest.
Are you sure that all the machines were in precisely the same state
with regard to packages before the upgrades?
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t discussion* Ouch. If the client were still allowed to
override the environment, even when the server was explicitly set to be
authoritative, that would make a complete nonsense of "authoritative".
Glad the discussion has gone the other way.
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:04:37AM +1100, John Warburton wrote:
> On 19 January 2011 17:41, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:10:56PM +1100, John Warburton wrote:
> > > wishes - https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3910
> >
> > *Looks at
Simply editing the file and saving it isn't enough.
I've verified that the clocks on both hosts are in sync - they're both
configured to use NTP & are fully synced. I'm not sure what else to
check. Any ideas why I'm seeing this behavior?
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sent in the metadata -- especially information beyond the
authorship and dependency information. Perhaps a wiki page is a good
place to start (focusing on the information to be supported -- not the
format, which is an implementation detail).
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y (just as you would with puppet, the dashboard, etc) -- and don't
forget we're more than happy to accept content and design contributions[2]
from the git-enabled.
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Puppet
config.
This isn't exactly a lightweight solution either and is a lot of work if
you didn't need this feature for anything else.
There are other ways to do it, but they do mean working against puppet's
design and it can be painful.
FWIW, I really don't like the way node
nity contributions to the curated docs, which need to be kept to
a much higher standard of quality than the "wild west" of wiki docs.
If anyone wants to just send me email about portions that suck (in the
static docs), let me know, and I'll get those cleaned up.
This sounds great,
viously if folks can file tickets directly that's better :)
Agreed; there's also the Feedback tab directly from the docs site,
using GetSatisfaction; a little less formal than Redmine tickets, at
least.
The more communication paths the merrier, provided there's a canonical
ame
The result will be the same. How did you think it might be different?
The path to execution within Puppet will be different, which may or may
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one scripts. So you don't need to incur the
overhead of running puppetmaster and puppet daemons just for your sites.
Of course, you can do this yourself by choosing your own templating
system and writing scripts to manipulate it, but puppet can make it much
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If the un
ly
triggering cfengine (and there are ways to protect against that).
Seems to me that the same thing can be achieved with puppetrun and tags
(or custom facts or some method you roll for yourself of communicating
arbitrary conditions to puppet). What am I missing?
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ange one thing at a
time wherever possible.
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Bruce
Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
everything you did to them on the way up.
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Bruce
Explota!: miles de lemmings no pueden estar equivocados.
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