Re: [Puppet Users] Managing classes of machines

2012-09-14 Thread Luke Bigum
A very popular design is the "module per package/service" approach. Your modules become building blocks and your node definitions pull all the building blocks in to describe a certain machine. So if you've got web and database server types, your modules might be "apache" and "mysql". If you ar

[Puppet Users] Managing classes of machines

2012-09-13 Thread Gregory Orange
Hi everyone, We've got a fairly small set of machines (perhaps 30) soon to be managed with puppet. We're looking for a good way to define which machines get which packages, and how those packages are configured on certain sets of machines. e.g. Apache on devel and production-webserver machine