Re: [Puppet Users] Practices: what _not_ to manage with Puppet?

2013-05-04 Thread Erik Dalén
On 4 May 2013 13:37, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Erik Dalén > wrote: > > I'd definitely configure the servers and > > clients for those protocols using Puppet. > > Is that what you do, or what you _would_ do? ;-) > It is what I do :) Using custom functions that pul

Re: [Puppet Users] Practices: what _not_ to manage with Puppet?

2013-05-04 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Erik Dalén wrote: > I'd definitely configure the servers and > clients for those protocols using Puppet. Is that what you do, or what you _would_ do? ;-) > Or using DHCP to configure networking instead of having puppet setting it > statically on your hosts. Do yo

Re: [Puppet Users] Practices: what _not_ to manage with Puppet?

2013-05-04 Thread Erik Dalén
I think that for some things where there are specialized protocols available to configure certain things it can be easier to use them instead of trying to make puppet do them same. But I'd definitely configure the servers and clients for those protocols using Puppet. Examples would be using nss_ld

[Puppet Users] Practices: what _not_ to manage with Puppet?

2013-05-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
While I prep my scripts and tool up for a large infra, I want to revisit a question that I ask myself regularly: what do people not manage with Puppet (or wish they weren't)? In my situation (a RH-style world), initial base system install, inc disk layout and initial networking is handled with kic