On Apr 3, 10:10 am, Jean Baptiste FAVRE
jean.baptiste.fa...@gmail.com wrote:
But I would like to highlight nodes dependenxies as well.
Is there any way to get a global node-centric graph ?
If yes, how: server-side, client-side, both ?
You might want to try this on puppet-dev. As far as I
On Mar 2, 5:52 pm, Patrick Connolly patrick.c.conno...@gmail.com
wrote:
Any thoughts? I like the Git idea, and might pursue that, but wondering if
anyone has input :)
If you're on EL you may want to look at cft[1]. I thought I saw
mention of work to bring ti to Deb based distros as well. I
On Feb 25, 4:24 pm, Dan Bode d...@puppetlabs.com wrote:
this is what cucumber-puppet does.
https://github.com/nistude/cucumber-puppet
I'll second cucumber-puppet. Being able to verify catalog compilation
is a great step. Beyond that you can test resources for the catalogs
as well.
--
You
I suspect you're hitting #3910, or a variant. It's possible for the
master and client to disagree on the clients environment. The client
will always request file paths based on it's concept of environment,
regardless of what the master/catalog/external node classifier
defines.
Remove
I actually made a type and provider for managing Route 53 entries a
while back[1].
I was putting off publishing it until I could rewrite it based on
Brices network device framework. If other people people could find
something like this useful I can clean it up to work with the current
2.6/2.5 and
On Feb 23, 1:25 pm, Brice Figureau brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com
wrote:
I unfortunately didn't had time to work on my network device framework
for more than a month. I expect to resume this work soon :)
I know what that's like. That aws code has been sitting since the
beginning of January.
On Feb 15, 5:21 pm, Patrick kc7...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have a guess if this bug is in the client, the master, or
dashboard? My report value is reports = http, store. If the error was
originally from dashboard, would the master have failed to save the file
because the order
On Feb 15, 1:27 pm, David Bishop tean...@gmail.com wrote:
In a perfect world, we could have three possible verbosity levels:
1) Only show errors (failures to compile the catalog, fails, etc)
2) #1 + all changes (Anything notice, in a normal --test run), but
without the diffs that you would
On Feb 16, 3:38 am, Derek J. Balling dr...@megacity.org wrote:
size = self.logs.size
if size == 0 then
system /usr/lib/nagios/eventhandlers/submit_puppet_result
+ ip + puppet-report 0 \There has been no change\
else
system
On Feb 15, 10:04 am, Rich Rauenzahn rraue...@gmail.com wrote:
Say we have a directory called /FOO-- we want to only have in it what
puppet puts into it.
...
puppet resource file /tmp/empty_me ensure=directory purge=true
source=/tmp/empty recurse=true recurselimit=1 force=true
I use this
On Feb 15, 1:27 pm, David Bishop tean...@gmail.com wrote:
Does this sound reasonable? Is it currently possible (and if so,
pointers are welcome!)? If I could make my trained developer monkey do
the actual work, would patches implementing this be accepted?
You may also be interested in the
On Feb 8, 4:30 pm, Michael Knox michael.knox...@gmail.com wrote:
Try ralsh yumrepo
Just discovered that ralsh can even use custom types out of my modules
... cool
Yup. You can do some really cool things with custom types and
providers:
tmp donavanm$ sudo puppet resource route53
route53 {
On Jan 31, 3:05 am, Pieter Baele pieter.ba...@gmail.com wrote:
- doing some sort of check if their recipes / templates work.
A stronger check than --parseonly is to use a tool like cucumber-
puppet. It's very simple to verify that a nodes catalog can actually
compile, not just parse.
On Jan 31, 10:09 am, Nan Liu n...@puppetlabs.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Gabriel Filion lelu...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, that would make manifests a lot more flexible. Here's a function
that should work for this purpose and potentially other puppet
configuration variables as
On Jan 26, 1:58 am, Jakub Pastuszek jpastus...@newbay.com wrote:
Is it possible to tell Puppet to ensure a package is installed before
using a custom provider that needs it for operation?
Or I need to make sure that base OS contains all the commands that any
provider may ever need?
I seem to
On Jan 26, 9:20 pm, donavan dona...@desinc.net wrote:
A common pattern to work around this is to use a 'boot strap' when
provisioning a node. This boot strap only contains enough resources to
get the machine, and puppet, to a workable state. After that a second
'full' run is done which applies
On Jan 26, 4:16 am, JupiterMoonBeam jupitermoonb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
However, there's a delay of one run between changes (as the repo gets
updated but the current run is still under the old config). Is there
anyway of getting puppet to rerun with the new config when the repo
changes?
As
On Jan 24, 5:07 am, Jonathan Gazeley jonathan.gaze...@bristol.ac.uk
wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to use the Package type to find the version number of an
installed RPM?
Have you seen 'ralsh', or 'puppet resource'[1]? You can use these
interactively to interrogate the state of a system,
On Jan 21, 1:55 pm, Felix Frank felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de
wrote:
On 01/21/2011 07:31 PM, Jockster wrote:
I am writing my first module for ntp, I have a few different versions
of Linux and also releases. The code worked when I only had one flavor
of Linux but now I have four and
On Jan 21, 1:17 pm, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote:
Is there a way to test custom types/providers without deploying them to
a node?
I'm thinking of something along the lines of puppet --parseonly or
similar.
How do others test what they've written, or do you
On Jan 21, 11:13 am, Dick Davies rasput...@hellooperator.net wrote:
ensurable do
defaultto 'present'
end
I've always specified the methods:
ensurable do
newvalue(:present) do
provider.create
end
newvalue(:absent) do
provider.destroy
On Jan 17, 6:38 pm, Nigel Kersten ni...@puppetlabs.com wrote:
I'm trying to get a feel for the actual use cases for the Schedule type in
Puppet.
Anyone care to help me out with some real world examples?
Schedules go great with exported resources. My use case is getting
applied changes on
On Jan 12, 1:45 pm, Stephane sros...@gmail.com wrote:
You could do something like following:
$wantedpackages = [ perl-DBI, perl-DBD-MySQL ]
package { $wantedpackages: ensure = installed }
In one call, we install 2 packages.
Stephane, the problem is with requirements inside the rpms. If
On Jan 11, 1:05 am, Carles Amigó fr...@fr3nd.net wrote:
What data is exactly discarded with thin storeconfigs?
Effectively only facts and exported resources are stored for each
node[1]. This is opposed to storing the complete set of resources (and
other stuff?) for each node. For normal puppet
On Jan 11, 2:45 pm, DaveQB david.w...@drdstudios.com wrote:
We had trouble scaling with 400+ nodes. Puppet server is a VM on an
ESX cluster with 3.5GB of ram and 1.5GB of swap but would regularly
kick in OOM which would kill off most if not all of the 10
puppetmaster instances.
This is very
On Jan 11, 3:09 am, Adriana adriana.tele...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
does anyone know if featurehttp://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2198
had been implemented and how it is possible to use it?
I don't think it's made it into the puppet codebase yet. It should be
pretty simple to run the
On Jan 8, 1:02 pm, trey85stang trey85st...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to get an idea of what kind of backend setup I would need
to run puppet to manage roughly 6000 hosts.
No one else has asked, but what's the geographic/network distribution
look like?
I see puppet by iteself is limited to
On Dec 20, 6:51 am, aaron prayther prayt...@gmail.com wrote:
does anyone have any examples of a disconnected configuration, not using a
puppet master?
Aaron,
I know Jordan Sissel[1] runs his deployment very muhc like this.
There's no central puppet master, but packages that install/enforce
On Dec 21, 4:38 pm, Douglas Garstang doug.garst...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to be able to put specific modules into 'maintenance' mode if a
variable has been set. I can check the variable, but the only way I can see
to have puppet skip processing is to use the fail() function, which stops
On Dec 16, 1:23 pm, Patrick kc7...@gmail.com wrote:
If such an approach is at all possible, the complete implementation
would include giving the proxy the means to recognize valid client
certificates.
The proxy can and is recognizing valid certificates. The problem is passing
that
On Dec 16, 10:48 am, boddiesdrinker martin.s...@gmail.com wrote:
The template file has this code:
relay = scope.function_file([/etc/puppet/secrets/smtp/ + name + /
relay]).chomp
Could it be the form of the file function which has changed?
According to the docs[1][2] it looks the same. The
On Dec 16, 10:48 am, boddiesdrinker martin.s...@gmail.com wrote:
The template file has this code:
relay = scope.function_file([/etc/puppet/secrets/smtp/ + name + /
relay]).chomp
Could it be the form of the file function which has changed?
I've just opened an issue that you may be hitting in
On Dec 16, 10:51 am, boddiesdrinker martin.s...@gmail.com wrote:
where can i get some template samples that use the function_
references?
Many Thanks
Martin
I replied in the other thread. I think you're hitting a bug. But this
is a working template that calls a core function:
% value =
On Dec 12, 11:17 pm, walexey wale...@gmail.com wrote:
Puppet (err): Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400
on SERVER: Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away
how can i fix it?
wbr, alw
Would you happen to be running the puppet master(s) in mongrel?
Yes, it
On Dec 10, 7:15 am, a.gorodin...@mail.ru a.gorodin...@mail.ru
wrote:
Hello!
I'm trying to use pre-commit SVN hook for checking puppet syntax. For
it I try to use some scripts from this
thread:http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/50ff...
But when I try some of
On Nov 22, 3:06 am, Ramon van Alteren ra...@hyves.nl wrote:
Hi All,
We're trying to get a hudson build working for our puppet modules by using
manitest.
So far we've had good progress but right now we're stumped.
We have a set of manifest/template combinations where the
manifest code uses
On Dec 1, 9:40 am, maillis...@gmail.com wrote:
We upgraded to 2.6.3 and we've suddenly noticed two and sometimes
three puppet processes frequently running on the clients. Is this
normal? Is it new to this version or are we
just noticing it for the first time? Any input is appreciated.
This is
On Dec 5, 10:17 pm, walexey wale...@gmail.com wrote:
hello!
centos 5.5, puppet 2.6.4, storeconfig, mysql, about150 clients.
time to time i recive following error:
Puppet (err): Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400
on SERVER: Mysql::Error: MySQL server has gone away
how
On Dec 1, 2:15 am, walexey wale...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everybody!
I use puppet storeconfig for configuring server side of bacula.
But when i remove one of client node, its information keeps in
storeconfig db.
How can i expire it?
wbr, alw
In the meantime theres a contrib script which
On Nov 24, 3:50 pm, Nigel Kersten ni...@puppetlabs.com wrote:
I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but here's a dedicated one.
We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25.x where we moved from
XMLRPC to REST.
How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x,
such that
On Nov 21, 6:12 pm, 張旭 zx1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a newbie in Puppet.
I had googled for a while,
I just wonder if those work ? (syntax below)
There are a couple of points here. If you want to set a default
paramters for a resource[1]:
Package{ provider = yum }
I think 'allowcdrom' parameter
On Nov 22, 3:21 pm, russell.fulton russell.ful...@gmail.com wrote:
Over the last few weeks I have several times felt the need to test out
some small snippets of puppet code without having to have them in my
live system.
At the moment I am doing all my testing by fiddling with file on the
On Nov 21, 7:55 am, Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org wrote:
A problem I've run into during my first attempts at writing manifests, is
knowing what possible facts are available, and for a given fact, what values
my
manifest might encounter.
I use 'default' matches liberally. For required
On Nov 17, 6:57 am, CraftyTech hmmed...@gmail.com wrote:
Would there be any issues with stored configs? should I either a)
Point both masters to the same PuppetDB server (MySql), or b) Setup a
two way replication between the masters, and connect them individually
to their respective
On Nov 15, 7:09 am, Christopher McCrory chris...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello...
I've been testing some new servers. I'm using exported resources for
several configs (see other email on ssh_known_hosts), including the
nagios tyoes (very cool!). Now I need to retire several test servers.
How do
On Nov 15, 11:11 am, sanjiv.singh sanjiv.si...@impetus.co.in
wrote:
1) Is there any machnism in which we can select puppet modules
according to build number..?
Look at the support for modulepath with multiple environments[1]. You
can set the environment value to any string. So you can use
On Nov 10, 7:42 pm, Derek J. Balling dr...@megacity.org wrote:
Has anyone had any luck in actually disabling certificates entirely. Just
trust the hostname you get from DNS and treat that info as authoritative.
I'm in the Puppet BoF @ LISA, and (essentially) was told that's never going
to
On Nov 11, 2:21 pm, Bruce Richardson itsbr...@workshy.org wrote:
(I wish Luke had chosen a name other than class for Puppet's
classes; it only confuses people).
Wondering off topic, but my favorite alternate term so far is
containers. Doesn't confuse people with programming backgrounds as
On Nov 11, 2:15 am, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote:
Leonko the.leo...@gmail.com writes:
I think it is mentioned obliquely a few times, but there certainly isn't
anywhere super-obvious that explains this feature of manifest auto-loading.
Yes, +1 to an issue for documenting it. That
On Nov 9, 6:06 am, Pieter Baele pieter.ba...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I would like to query the puppetmaster (or the puppet nodes...) for some facts
and display/use these in an external web application (written django)
using the certificates from Puppet.
What's the correct (nice) way to do
On Nov 2, 7:26 am, Joel Merrick joel.merr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Puppeteers!
I've just been speaking to Ohad on #theforeman about package
management, specifically about generating lists of packages : version
numbers across the estate for things like patch management.
Hi Joel,
It's not
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
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
On Oct 11, 2:09 pm, Philip Brown phil.googlen...@bolthole.com wrote:
Is there any pre-existing functionality in puppet, to allow limiting
parallelism?
There's nothing inherent in puppet, besides the 'splay' options. The
other common solution is to use the $rand_from_fqdn custom Fact
pattern.
On Oct 8, 1:18 pm, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote:
We just use packages:
package { puppet: ensure = latest }
Seconded, mostly. We target specific versions, and test in a lab
first, but self upgrades work. We've gone through up, and down, grades
of multiple versions of .24, .25, and
On Aug 6, 8:50 am, CraftyTech hmmed...@gmail.com wrote:
So, should the exporting
of the necessary values be done in the same class as the collection,
or should I just outline it on my default node definition. Here's
what I have so far (and it's not working):
Your example is pretty close. I
On Aug 4, 2:33 am, dom domiji...@googlemail.com wrote:
anyone? anyone? (bueller? bueller?)
are there internal puppet variables or some such that show puppet
state/config that can be interrogated in a manifest? any other way of
telling if storedconfig is enabled?
I've never tried, so I
On Jun 15, 8:24 pm, Gus F. gus.fer...@gmail.com wrote:
It is happening on 0.25.5-1 server, but so far I have only seen the
problem on 0.24.X clients. I don't have an 0.25.4 master to test
against, but at any rate I am unable to reproduce the problem. The
problem seems to have occurred in a
On Jun 14, 11:07 pm, Gabriel Filion lelu...@gmail.com wrote:
bug or missing feature.. I haven't tried it with 0.25.5, though. I'm on
Debian unstable, using the puppet/puppetmaster packages, so the version
is 0.25.4
should I open a bug report about this?
Take a look on puppet-dev group and
On Jun 15, 2:39 pm, Gus F. gus.fer...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using puppet (version 0.25.5-1.e15 for redhat) for password
management for non-system users. This morning, users on some of my
puppet clients had their encrypted password strings in /etc/shadow
replaced with the following string:
On Jun 14, 1:14 pm, Brian Gallew g...@gallew.org wrote:
class jboss {
include users
User[java]{home = /home/app1
realize(User[java])}
where java is declared in
class users {
@user{java: uid=500, gid=501}
}
Brian,
I'm still in .24.8 land, so some of this is WAG.
For your stated
On Jun 12, 1:09 pm, Gabriel Filion lelu...@gmail.com wrote:
I tested giving a list of strings to the hostgroups attribute to the
nagios_host resource but it only considers the first element of the list.
Something like this?:
nagios_host {
$fqdn:
address = $ipaddress,
hostgroups = [group1,
On Jun 8, 2:39 am, Héctor Rivas key...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there anybody working extending puppet for AIX?
How is the best way to share our improvements and colaborate?
Hector,
I believe Andrew Forgue did a lot (all?) of the existing AIX work. You
can see an example here
On Jun 7, 1:00 pm, Christopher Johnston chjoh...@gmail.com wrote:
Think I found the issue from an strace, the rubygems-sqlit3 rpm was
missing.. still curious on where the logs end up for it though. The fact
that its using sqllite also doesn't help as I think I am running into
locking issues
On Jun 5, 2:31 pm, Chuck cssc...@gmail.com wrote:
I am currently using passenger and puppet 0.25.5 on RHEL 5.4
I am looking to support 3000 - 4000 nodes in the up coming years.
2000 nodes in one data center
500 nodes in each of three more data centers (1500 nodes)
I am currently worried
On May 13, 10:53 pm, Abhishek abhishek.r...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way to define multiple puppet servers in client
configuration so that if my one puppet server is down then my
production config changes can be applied from other puppet server. I
am using apache and Mongrel for
On May 12, 1:03 am, Rohan McGovern rohan.mcgov...@nokia.com wrote:
I've been doing it like this, for an example module
named baselayout:
modules/baselayout/manifests/init.pp:
import *
class baselayout {
case $operatingsystem {
Darwin: { include baselayout::mac }
On May 14, 1:39 pm, Ken k...@bob.sh wrote:
Also I just realised - if the client does it using SRV with weights
and priorities - you get global server load balancing built in. Cool
bananas.
ken.
That exact functionality is actually a big benefit to me. As an
example we have multiple geo
On May 6, 5:46 pm, Trevor Vaughan tvaug...@onyxpoint.com wrote:
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I don't think that ruby itself allows variables with dashes in the name
since it will probably interpret them as minus signs and try to
interpret the variables around the symbol.
On May 6, 4:31 pm, donavan dona...@desinc.net wrote:
Am I missing some clever way to use variables containing a dash in the
name?
We're using LDAP nodes I may have a node like this example:
..
And I'd like to access 'console-port' as a variable in a manifest.
Reading over I realize this may
On May 7, 1:16 pm, Jesús M. Navarro jesus.nava...@andago.com
wrote:
Won't use the ${variable-name} version do the trick?
Cheers.
I tried that initially, but it wouldn't pass --parseonly (.24.8) so I
didn't commit it. Let me check manually..
Yeah, parseonly and actual catalog compilation both
2000 nodes certainly is within my goals with the design, that said there has
not been such a big deploy.
We've got 500+ nodes on mcollective currently. Nothing special as far
as setup, a few of the contrib agents and few more in house agents.
Nodes are primarily split between two buildings
But for more sophisticated puppet setups - what are your ways to determine
which environment you are in.
I wrote a custom fact, location, that embeds all the logic in a tiny bit of
custom Ruby. (In fact, it just grabs the hostname, domain, and IP address,
then uses a tiny bit of logic to
Can you please explain this method a bit more, for the
unexperienced like me?
Showing the actual code would be great, if it's possible.
Sure, I assume you mean the exported resource part. Using
storeconfigs[1] it's possible to exchange information between nodes.
Brice has some great
Am I missing some clever way to use variables containing a dash in the
name?
We're using LDAP nodes I may have a node like this example:
dn: cn=ns01.domain.com,cn=machines,o=domain
cn: ns01.domain.com
objectClass: top
objectClass: puppetClient
ipHostNumber: 192.201.112.90
parentnode:
On Apr 19, 10:09 pm, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote:
So, a simple gateway fact is essentially meaningless for our network; this
is probably true of at-least-some machines on at-least-some large networks.
(So, while your fact is meaningful, it isn't a generic gateway fact :)
snip
On Apr 7, 8:56 am, Seeker cecil.hypol...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, Just wondering, is there a limit on the file size that you can
transfer with PUPPET.
Thank you all
As others have mentioned Puppet is pretty inefficient with file
transfers currently. Our rule of thumb limit File resources to
Let's start with two example problems:
1) Select the first available value in an address space. For example
openldap syncrepl rid, ID uniquely identifying the replica .. an
integer which has no more than three decimal digits[1].
2) Selecting a sticky random value from an array of values. In this
On Mar 28, 8:47 pm, deet somew...@gmail.com wrote:
I like the idea of accessing this information through facter instead
of needlessly running ifconfig again.
Indeed. Take a look at the facter libraries, they're quite readable
overall. Plenty of good bits in 'facter/util' that you can use
And I want to say something like (pseudo code)
if network_* = 10.55.12.0
then
static route magic here
From this example you're trying to detect it any interface is on the
10.55.12.0 network, correct? Are you also trying to match a set of
networks (10.55.12.0, 10.55.13.0, etc) with
host has one). I've not ventured down the custom fact road before so
this should be an little adventure.
Your version certainly will work. I think this is how I might take a
stab at it though:
require 'facter'
require 'ipaddr'
require 'yaml'
Facter.add(nsd_gateway) do
setcode do
Sorry for the late reply. I hadn't noticed your response.
How are you running the puppetmasters Donovan? Passenger?
I'd like us to have a nice simple install for people wanting to run
the server on OS X. I have a script around somewhere that will create
a Passenger pkg from the source
At work we have three puppetmasters running on OSX 10.5. I hate to say
it, but it came down to custom packages. We're using encap to deploy
across 3 different OSs for all the site common bits.
Other than the packaging the other bits of apple sauce to tackle were
service management bizzaro
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