On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:47:53PM -0700, Tim Harper wrote: > > I want to run puppet in the cloud. The trouble is, the fqdn fact is > quite random and looks something like "domU-12-32-19-01-B8-D1". > > I'm OK with deploying the cert pair and configuring puppetd to use the > same cert on every box. However, I need to be able to select which > node configuration in the puppet master to use on the client side, > without changing the hostname (or adding a new node every time we > bring up a new server). > > Is this possible? Do I have to over-ride the fqdn fact some how on the > client?
The simplest way I've found to tackle this problem is by utilising the user-data portion of the API. When you start the EC2 instance you can attach a file which will be available via http after boot. I use the ubuntu images created by Eric Hammond http://alestic.com/. If you look at the script used to create them you can see how it saves the user data in a particular location on the disk and then if it begins with #! it executes it. So you can put info in there which another script uses to configure the box. My preference however is to send a script which configures the server. My particular script does the following. - Puts VPN keys embedded in the script to the disk - Installs and starts openvpn to connect to my puppet server - Places puppet certificates on the disk - Installs puppet - Sets the hostname of the server - restarts puppet That way the puppetmaster knows which server it's supposed to be. Hope that helps. Cheers, -- John Blog http://www.inodes.org/blog OLPC Friends http://olpcfriends.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
