Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
I think it's a bad idea to deal with the overhead of an NFS mount when you have a dedicated puppet CA, as on your non-CA servers there should be no need to ever write to that directory. On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: Oh, that's for sharing the puppetmaster

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Smith
Puppetmasters (the puppetmasterds serving catalogs) don't need access to the same SSL dir the Puppet CA (the puppetmasterd signing and revoking certs). But, they do need to share the private key for presenting the certificate for puppet.domain.com. And the CRL as well, if you use it. That

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-18 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: Puppetmasters (the puppetmasterds serving catalogs) don't need access to the same SSL dir the Puppet CA (the puppetmasterd signing and revoking certs). But, they do need to share the private key for presenting the certificate

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-17 Thread Scott Smith
nfs mount the puppetmaster ssl dir. seperate puppetca (set on clients) play with it and you'll figure it out :) On Nov 11, 2010 9:18 AM, luke.bigum luke.bi...@fasthosts.co.uk wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if this document is up to date (besides the comment at the top saying it's not):

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-17 Thread John Warburton
I rsync my ssl dir from CNAMES puppet-ca.example.com to puppet-ca2.example.com every 5 mins All clients configuration is set up such that ca_server = puppet-ca.example.com If puppet-ca goes down, I swing the pppet-ca CNAME to the puppet-ca2 server Note that to make this work I use the same

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-17 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: nfs mount the puppetmaster ssl dir. seperate puppetca (set on clients) play with it and you'll figure it out :) Why do you need to nfs mount the puppetmaster SSL dir in this case Scott? There's no state to be shared if you're

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-17 Thread Scott Smith
Oh, that's for sharing the puppetmaster SSL keypair between each other, that's all. On Nov 17, 2010 3:53 PM, Nigel Kersten ni...@puppetlabs.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Scott Smith sc...@ohlol.net wrote: nfs mount the puppetmaster ssl dir. seperate puppetca (set on clients) play

Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple CA / Puppet master environment

2010-11-11 Thread Dan Bode
Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:17 AM, luke.bigum luke.bi...@fasthosts.co.ukwrote: Hi, Does anyone know if this document is up to date (besides the comment at the top saying it's not): http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Multiple_Certificate_Authorities Or does anyone who has a