[Puppet Users] can puppet manage puppet agents or puppetmasters?

2014-02-08 Thread Larry Fast
https://ask.puppetlabs.com/question/4694/updating-puppet-agents/ I'm looking at this thread from ask.puppetlabs and so far the the only answer seems to be - don't use puppet to manage puppet. I'm asking the broader community because I'm still naively hopeful that puppet can manage its own inst

Re: [Puppet Users] can puppet manage puppet agents or puppetmasters?

2014-02-09 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, I just voted for Martin Alfke's recent answer. Specifically, I recommend to prefer cron over the running agent, that makes agent management much easier. Updating puppet and its configuration can be done via puppet easily. HTH, Felix On 02/09/2014 12:53 AM, Larry Fast wrote: > https://ask.pup

Re: [Puppet Users] can puppet manage puppet agents or puppetmasters?

2014-02-09 Thread Sterling Windmill
Larry, I would assume that a "masterless" puppet could configure your puppet master and/or agent if desired. You would need to have puppet itself and the necessary manifests/modules available to you but what it sounds like you're looking for sounds imminently doable. You may want to just consi

Re: [Puppet Users] can puppet manage puppet agents or puppetmasters?

2014-02-10 Thread Jason Antman
There are some issues with Puppet restarting (or stopping) itself. Beyond that, yes, I use puppet modules to manage the configuration of all of my masters and agents. There's a puppetlabs-puppet module, but it's horribly out of date. At the moment, I'm using a fork (https://github.com/jbouse/p

Re: [Puppet Users] can puppet manage puppet agents or puppetmasters?

2014-02-10 Thread Thomas Noonan II
I, too, have a puppet module that configures puppet. In my experience it isn't really any different than puppet managing any other daemon, with one glaring exception. That exception is that if you push out a bad puppet conf with puppet, then you're gonna have to go in and fix all your nodes witho