On 9/16/2008 12:21 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > Does anyone know of a guide or site that can get someone going on > puppet quickly, without having to swallow the whole system at once?
Same recommendations as everyone else (James Turnbull's book, haven't read it, but everyone else says it's great), plus two others: 1. I've got several posts up about converting my systems over to a managed infrastructure at http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/infrastructure-management/ -- there's still a few pieces left to write up (and to completely implement, for that matter), but it's pretty puppet-centric. 2. Similarly, there may be a few posts at http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/category/puppet/ that aren't linked from the infrastructure management pages. But generally, a naive puppet setup is just a matter of writing down what you'd have to do to get a particular service up and running to your liking. Often it's of the form: 1) Install a package with my usual package manager. 2) Edit a configuration file from the package if necessary, or copy over a standard configuration file from a network location. 3) Restart the package's service if I actually changed anything in step 2. The writeup at http://blogs.cae.tntech.edu/mwr/2007/05/13/time-synchronization/ is a bit more complicated than the above, but only by trying to account for multiple platforms, and whether or not ntp should be running in a VM. Anything that's not obvious in the time sync post can most likely be clarified by checking Puppet's Type Reference. -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
