Re: [Puppet Users] Help with Bolt Puppet DSL example

2021-11-19 Thread Sandra Schlichting
task within a module. > > You can then use bolt to execute a task: > > bolt task run —nodes > > The task istself: > #modules/demo/tasks/test.sh > #!/bin/bash > touch > sudo touch > > Hth, > Martin > > On 17. Nov 2021, at 21:42, Sandra Schlic

[Puppet Users] Help with Bolt Puppet DSL example

2021-11-17 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear all =) I would like to learn Bolt with Puppet DSL, so I was wondering if someone could get me started with an example that: * logs into a Linux host * touch new_file_as_user * sudo * touch file_as_root That would be very much appreciated =) Hugs, Sandra =) -- You received this

Re: [Puppet Users] Does Puppet still execute in random order?

2021-06-22 Thread Sandra Schlichting
osh Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 4:37 PM Sandra Schlichting > wrote: > >> Dear all =) >> >> It have been +5 years since I used Puppet at my previous job, and back >> then I recall Puppet executed the tasks in random order, and I had to glue >>

[Puppet Users] Does Puppet still execute in random order?

2021-06-21 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear all =) It have been +5 years since I used Puppet at my previous job, and back then I recall Puppet executed the tasks in random order, and I had to glue all the tasks together to get them to be executed sequential. I recall something about Puppet have been completely rewritten since, so I

[Puppet Users] Re: Possible for each user to have their own testing environment?

2013-08-20 Thread Sandra Schlichting
On Monday, 19 August 2013 15:48:38 UTC+2, myeazel wrote: Git branching and environments is exactly what we did to solve this problem. We are actually using gitolite which allows us to lock down who can push to certain branches. So anyone can create their own branch, push that up (which

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible for each user to have their own testing environment?

2013-08-20 Thread Sandra Schlichting
How can a git branch name (master) conflict with content in the puppet.conf file? When using puppet agent --environment=master, the [master] section containing configuration directives (e.g. database connection for puppetdb) will be interpreted by the puppet agent, with less than

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible for each user to have their own testing environment?

2013-08-20 Thread Sandra Schlichting
The environment name is just a directory within the /etc/puppet/environments directory, nothing more. If you use a git branch named 'master', you will just have to check it out into an environment directory with a different name, such as 'production', 'main', etc... It doesn't matter

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible for each user to have their own testing environment?

2013-08-19 Thread Sandra Schlichting
or stable. How can a git branch name (master) conflict with content in the puppet.conf file? Hugs, Sandra =) On Friday, 16 August 2013 01:14:44 UTC+2, John Warburton wrote: On 16 August 2013 00:14, Sandra Schlichting littles...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Hello all =) What I

[Puppet Users] Possible for each user to have their own testing environment?

2013-08-15 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hello all =) What I would like is a way so multiple people can make changes to all files in /etc/puppet/, but only after they have tested their changes then they git push so /etc/puppet is updated. The git repo is in /etc/puppet. When I read about environments [1] I get the impression that is

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet alert about dead nodes?

2012-11-01 Thread Sandra Schlichting
I provided some posts about the health of Puppet agents some time ago. They might help too. The first one is found here: http://www.bernd-adamowicz.de/80/monitoring-puppet-part-1/. The others are linked. That is exactly what I was looking for =) Very interesting blog, btw. Lots of

[Puppet Users] Re: Can Puppet alert about dead nodes?

2012-11-01 Thread Sandra Schlichting
My solution to this is a script that enumerates the signed keys that the master server knows about and compares this with which clients have been seen in the past 24 hours. There's probably also a way to do it with some of puppet's reporting facilities. My script is appended if it is of

[Puppet Users] Can Puppet alert about dead nodes?

2012-10-31 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi all =) Can the puppet master tell me which nodes it haven't heard from in X days? Hugs, Sandra =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: [Puppet Users] Can Puppet alert about dead nodes?

2012-10-31 Thread Sandra Schlichting
If you have dashboard installed unresponsive nodes can be seen in the left panel. The reason I am interested in this information is that I would like to have the puppet master tricker Nagios to send an alert. =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[Puppet Users] Please review this node check script

2012-10-10 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi, The attached script is made for those who have one node per file and want to catch if something have been made global by being outside on the node block. Example: node xxx { ... } package{...} if ... { ... } which should have been node xxx { ... package{...} if ... { ... } } Adjust the

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to disable global definition outside of nodes?

2012-10-10 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Afaik, there is no way to make puppet tell you about this. Puppet is a powerful tool and you got what you asked for :-) I have now written a script that will check for this, and posted it in Please review this node check script =) What you can do is to write Rspec tests for your

[Puppet Users] Possible to disable global definition outside of nodes?

2012-10-09 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi =) I just made the following mistake, but puppet 2.7.19 didn't complain. node test { ... } package { [ ... ]: ensure = present } So I guess all the packages became global for all nodes? Is it possible to disable this global definition option, or get puppet to warn about it? Hugs,

[Puppet Users] How to use prerun_command in puppet.conf ?

2012-10-09 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi, I am using puppet 2.7.19 and if I use puppet.conf as [main] logdir = /var/log/puppet rundir = /var/run/puppet ssldir = $vardir/ssl [agent] classfile = $vardir/classes.txt localconfig = $vardir/localconfig prerun_command = /bin/false or add prerun to [main] and do puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 2.7 v 3.0 in the PuppetLabs yum repo

2012-10-07 Thread Sandra Schlichting
I know for that practice, but the problem is that it makes upgrade from samba to samba3x packages a problem. So I would rather avoid that with the puppet. And if you know how to add puppetlabs repo to yum, then you'll know how to choose what version repo to use. Just take a look at

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 2.7 v 3.0 in the PuppetLabs yum repo

2012-10-05 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi Chad * Take a look at the yum versionlock plugin. My life has been much simpler since I deployed it. For a while I was excludeing puppet and friends in yum.conf, but that was a real pain. The versionlock plugin pins a package at the version you want, and then you can update when

[Puppet Users] Are future versions of facter and hiera 2.7.x backwards compatible?

2012-10-05 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi, I am using puppet 2.7 so I am wondering if the new facter-1.6.13-1 hiera-1.1.0 and future versions are compatible with puppet 2.7 ? Hugs, Sandra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit

[Puppet Users] How to change node hostname?

2012-09-25 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear readers, I have changed the hostname of a node, and so the question is: How do I delete the old puppet certificate on the node and master? Hugs, Sandra =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web

[Puppet Users] Possible to install own deb packages on nodes?

2012-09-18 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear all =) I have a few deb packages that I would like to install on some Ubuntu nodes. This guy explains how to create your own repository, which I think is a little overkill for me. http://mancoosi.org/~abate/configuring-local-apt-repository-puppet Is it possible to have puppet install the

[Puppet Users] Can puppet add repositories to nodes?

2012-09-17 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi all, I would like to add two repositories to Ubuntu nodes apt-add-repository deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main and then import the key apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys

Re: [Warning: Phish?] Re: [Puppet Users] Can puppet add repositories to nodes?

2012-09-17 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi Joe and Matt, Thanks a lot for both solutions!! I am actually going to use both as for normal hosts Joe's solution is good, and Matt's for LTSP clients =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web

[Puppet Users] Installing packages that require user input (e.g. NIS) ?

2012-09-12 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi all I would like to install NIS, but how do I handle such a package which prompts for user input, when apt-get install nis is done on Ubuntu? Hugs, Sandra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing packages that require user input (e.g. NIS) ?

2012-09-12 Thread Sandra Schlichting
figure out if nis packages support having an 'answer' file available to provide the input for those questions and if so, have puppet put the file into place prior to installing the packages. Great. It does. Thanks =) These links were useful

[Puppet Users] How to set DNS on Ubuntu 12.04 clients?

2012-09-11 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi all =) Does anyone know of a module that can configure the DNS on Ubuntu 12.04 clients? This module works for CentOS and Ubuntu 12.04 http://forge.puppetlabs.com/saz/resolv_conf but in Ubuntu 12.04 you can't just overwrite the /etc/resolv.conf anymore. DNS have to be set in

Re: [Puppet Users] How to set DNS on Ubuntu 12.04 clients?

2012-09-11 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Surely if you're statically configuring DNS on a server, you don't want a dynamic DNS configuration daemon running on the same server. Presumably something like: package { 'resolvconf': ensure = purged } And then get on with your life? That is a very attractive

Re: [Puppet Users] How to set DNS on Ubuntu 12.04 clients?

2012-09-11 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Not necessarily. I have not tried this myself yet, but you can put static DNS settings in /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/{head,base,tail}. Afterwards call service resolvconf restart. See here for details: http://www.stgraber.org/2012/02/24/dns-in-ubuntu-12-04/ Just tried it, and just

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to copy ssh key from node A to node B?

2012-09-04 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi Chad Sorry, Sandra, I started to add a comment at the bottom with usage, but apparently I never saved it. Although the script can do user keys as well, this just addresses host keys. I have a cron script that generates the known hosts file as well: [snip] Wow. Easy and simple

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to copy ssh key from node A to node B?

2012-08-31 Thread Sandra Schlichting
There's an sshauth module at http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Module_Ssh_Auth_Patterns that I've used successfully on a 2.7.x puppetmaster. It handles public private key generation and exchange, but doesn't handle known_hosts. It doesn't require a DB backend

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to copy ssh key from node A to node B?

2012-08-31 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Err, no. In a well-maintained environment, it should never be necessary to manually approve a host key. I would prefer that too. Usually you should always distribute all host keys to all clients with one of the common @@ssh_key Export/Collect patterns. That is totally unrelated to

[Puppet Users] Possible to copy ssh key from node A to node B?

2012-08-30 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi, I would like to write a class that can copy /root/.ssh/id_dsa from node A to node B. class sshkeycopy { exec {ssh-keygen -q -t dsa -f /root/.ssh/id_dsa -P '': creates = /root/.ssh/id_dsa.pub } file {/root/.ssh/id_dsa: mode = 644, owner = root,

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to copy ssh key from node A to node B?

2012-08-30 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi Eric On the run so no time to write up a quick example - but take a look at exported resources. There's a design patterns page -- http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/exported_resources.html These are designed to do what you're looking for. Wow. That looks very complicated. =) I

[Puppet Users] How to purge network-manager (requires reboot) ?

2012-08-29 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi all =) I would like to purge the following packages network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-pptp network-manager-pptp-gnome but the problem is, that I suppose a reboot is required for the NIC's no longer to be manged by network-manager? How would you work around this?

[Puppet Users] Re: How to purge network-manager (requires reboot) ?

2012-08-29 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi Krzysztof I am not sure why would it require a restart, hm... I am used to making sure that the service is stopped, packaged purged and then you only need to make sure that static IP configuration is in place. Sometimes you need to get rid of the udev rules file, but not often. Great.

[Puppet Users] Re: thoughts on puppet 2.7 vs 3.0

2012-08-29 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Please see this post. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/8AwzWv2-Qeo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/mlKC53-C9e4J. To

[Puppet Users] What is wrong with mu class?

2012-08-29 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi, If I write the following in a template directories=% backupDirList.each do |dir| -%%= dir % % end -% then it will output directories=/appl /etc /usr/local Question How do I print the backupDirList array, so it doesn't end with a blank space? Best regards, Sandra =) -- You received

[Puppet Users] Re: What is wrong with mu class?

2012-08-29 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Solved. directories=%= backupDirList.join( ) % Of course =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/yJvpD1K7AiQJ. To post to this group, send

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Puppet 3.0.0-rc4 Available

2012-08-28 Thread Sandra Schlichting
I just published the saved query that lists these tickets, for a little nicer URL: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues?query_id=263 That is a very interesting link. Do you know what the estimated time frame is for 3.0 final? -- You received this message because

[Puppet Users] Why this Could not evaluate error?

2012-08-28 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear readers, When I do this node testip { package {'isc-dhcp-server': ensure = purged, } service {'isc-dhcp-server': ensure = stopped, enable = false, pattern = 'dhcpd' } } I get this error Error:

[Puppet Users] Re: Why this Could not evaluate error?

2012-08-28 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Please replace testip with mttj-linuxterm1-puppet =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/kljEiHtlKgIJ. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [Puppet Users] How can MCollective replace puppet kick?

2012-08-26 Thread Sandra Schlichting
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective gives a bit more information on mcollective itself. You don't actually push configs to nodes with it; you have a client which tells all machines that matches a fact to trigger a puppet run. The puppetd agent plugin is required for this

[Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Puppet 3.0.0-rc4 Available

2012-08-25 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Does there exist a tracker bug of blocking bugs for final release? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/d0xADxbjGzUJ. To post to this group, send

[Puppet Users] How can MCollective replace puppet kick?

2012-08-25 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear readers, I was shocked to see that puppet kick will be deprecated in 3.0.0 https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15735 How can MCollective replace puppet kick? Hugs, Sandra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this

Re: [Puppet Users] How can MCollective replace puppet kick?

2012-08-25 Thread Sandra Schlichting
How can MCollective replace puppet kick? http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/mcollective-plugins/wiki/AgentPuppetd I don't know what MCollective is, and that link doesn't say anything that will explain it or how I can push configs to nodes =( -- You received this message

Re: [Puppet Users] How can MCollective replace puppet kick?

2012-08-25 Thread Sandra Schlichting
MCollective is a service that runs on every node. It constantly polls a message queue server for real-time messages and sometimes responds to them by performing actions. You use a command-line client app to send messages, and you can set filters on each message so only certain nodes or

Re: [Puppet Users] How can MCollective replace puppet kick?

2012-08-25 Thread Sandra Schlichting
The mcollective agent is written in Ruby, but it's really tiny. You can use the mco controller plugin to view resource utilization over time, and it's generally infinitesimal. Great. Thanks =) MCollective sounds very useful! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[Puppet Users] How to syntax debug in puppet 3?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear readers, How do I syntax debug the config files on the puppet master before I deploy them? My current problem is that server_list is to be an array, and I don't know if I should write class { 'ntp': server_list = $ntpServerList } or class { 'ntp': server_list = $ntpServerList } How

[Puppet Users] Chart of the most common Ruby I should know for puppet 3?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi all, Being new to puppet 3 and to Ruby. Does there exist a chart of the Ruby I should know? Hugs, Sandra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: [Puppet Users] How to syntax debug in puppet 3?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi Bernd Did you ever try Gepetto (https://github.com/cloudsmith/geppetto)? At least in the coming version (3.0) will support Puppet 3. I really do recommend Gepetto since I’ve been working with it for more than a year now and it helped me a lot creating error free code. You should give

Re: [Puppet Users] How to syntax debug in puppet 3?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Yes, you may either use it as an Eclipse plugin or as a standalone program. [snip] That sounds interesting. How do I do that? =) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: [Puppet Users] How to syntax debug in puppet 3?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear Juan - puppet parser validate file.pp (Validate the syntax of one or more Puppet manifests). - puppet-lint file.pp (Check that your Puppet manifest conform to the style guide) this one must installed using gems package manager: gem install puppet-lint That's exactly what I was

Re: [Puppet Users] Chart of the most common Ruby I should know for puppet 3?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi James The Puppet language reference: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/ Just what I was looking for =) Thanks. Hugs, Sandra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Puppet Users group. To view this discussion on the web visit

Re: [Puppet Users] How to syntax debug in puppet 3?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
I first use vim-puppet (syntax highlighting for puppet manifests in vim while creating my manifest) To create my manifests Btw. How do you install that? I have tried mkdir .vim cd .vim git clone https://github.com/rodjek/vim-puppet.git cd echo set runtimepath+=$HOME/.vim/vim-puppet

[Puppet Users] How to set default values for downloaded modules?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear readers, I would like to use the saz-ntp module from https://github.com/saz/puppet-ntp When installed the class is called ntp. Ideally would I like each node to look like node testsrv { include ntp } Problem I don't want to modify the downloaded module, but I would like to be able to

Re: [Puppet Users] How to set default values for downloaded modules?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Hi Ryan, [snip] This is equivalent to writing include ntp but without just accepting the default behavior and data. Yes, the following works node testsrv { class { 'ntp': server_list = [ 'server1', 'server2', 'etc' ], } } but I would really like to have this instead node testsrv {

Re: [Puppet Users] How to set default values for downloaded modules?

2012-08-24 Thread Sandra Schlichting
using something like 'myconfig::ntp' (or any different name, 'ntp_local', etc.) would work fine. This would look like class myconfig::ntp { class { 'ntp': server_list = [ 'a.example.com', 'b.example.com' ] } } note testsrv { include

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to push changes to nodes?

2012-07-31 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Note that getting puppet kick working is a multi-step process: - Gotta change all agents' puppet.conf to have listen = true in either [main] or [agent]. - Gotta open port 8139 to incoming connections on every agent node's firewall. - Gotta add the following stanza somewhere near the

Re: [Puppet Users] Possible to push changes to nodes?

2012-07-31 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Could you post your whole auth.conf once more? Sure =) I haven't touched anything besides adding your lines towards the bottom auth.conf http://pastebin.com/1Vv0y2tc debug output from node http://pastebin.com/h5cTHxUS namespace.auth http://pastebin.com/6Qut6MSJ puppet.conf

[Puppet Users] Possible to push changes to nodes?

2012-07-27 Thread Sandra Schlichting
Dear readers, When I have made a change to a template, class or file, is it then possible to push this change to the node(s), so they get the changes now? I would like to be able to push the change from the master, and not have to login to each node and pull. Is that possible? Hugs, Sandra