If it's not been already mentioned..
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingMultipleEnvironments
may help
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok - I'll try to make it as simple as I can...
>
> ***Modules***
>
> We define 3 types of modules (its just our internal definition):
> 1. host type - this module is the only class that the node would have and
> its it primary function of the host (e.g. you can't use more than one host
> type module in one node)
> 2. service modules - modules which are usually shared between different
> host type modules (e.g. ssh, apache etc), one special module here is the
> host-base which every host-type module inherits
> 3. site modules, these are site specific modules which only apply to a
> certain location.
>
> ***Version Control***
>
> we use tagging extensively - e.g. when a module is ready for testing, it is
> being tagged, if everything is ready, its tagged again is production.
>
> Tagging associate a version to the module - e.g. ssh_1.5
>
> everyone can checkin stuff into the head, but unless they are not tagged,
> they would only impact machines which are in the development environment
>
> *** environments ***
>
> environments can be defined per location, application or a mix of the two
>
> for example, the environment global-puppetmasters would include the module
> ssh_1.5, apache_1.0 ....
>
> this allows each environment to use a different pretested state of each
> module.
>
> a configuration example:
>
> module_dir { "/etc/puppet/env/global_puppetmaster":}
>
> ##### Stable service modules #####
>
> modules { "PP-host-base": module => "host-base", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.12"}
> modules { "PP-sudo": module => "sudo", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.1" }
> modules { "PP-ssh": module => "ssh", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.1" }
>
> modules { "PP-sendmail": module => "sendmail", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.14"}
> modules { "PP-ldap": module => "ldap", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.11"}
> modules { "PP-redhat": module => "redhat", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.12"}
>
> modules { "PP-autofs": module => "autofs", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.1" }
> modules { "PP-apache2": module => "apache2", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.1" }
> modules { "PP-subversion":module => "subversion",site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.11"}
>
> modules { "PP-syslog-ng": module => "syslog-ng", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.11"}
> modules { "PP-monit": module => "monit", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.1" }
> modules { "PP-munin": module => "munin", site =>
> "global_puppetmaster", type => "services", version => "0.1" }
>
> #### stable host types modules #####
> modules { "PP-puppetmaster": site => "global_puppetmaster", module =>
> "host-puppetmaster", version => "0.21" }
> }
>
> using this syntax it creates all the necessary environment modules which
> are basically links to the version of the "stable/testing" module.
>
> all of this code is available freely at
> http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-multipuppetmaster
>
> cheers,
> Ohad
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Ben Beuchler <ins...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> > since many times, a given node has uses many different modules (which
>> are
>> > managed by different people) we decided to tag our "stable" modules
>> (e.g.
>> > associate it with a version) and generate an environment out of tested
>> > combination of the stable modules.
>>
>> Would you be willing to describe this process in a bit more detail?
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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