I didn't articulate my interests. I was trying to see if there was a way I could boot up a local copy of the puppetmaster, so I could edit changes and apply them to a single server without: A) affecting other servers, except for the one I'm targeting, until I'm ready to deploy B) have a working sandbox copy that is my sandbox copy, without having to create a sandbox for everyone who uses puppet
Now that I'm thinking about it more and have been bumping against cert issues, I think it will be easier just to set up individual sandboxes using the environments feature of puppet. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingMultipleEnvironments Thanks! Eventually we'll get a staging cluster built out in a series of VM's, but until then I believe this will serve us well. Tim On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Tim Harper <timchar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I recognize that would be a solution, and likely a good one, however I > believe in order for us to be able to test puppet changes before committing > and pushing them to the server, we'd all have to boot our own series of VM's > (in other words, we don't have a single sysadmin). > Tim > > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Brian Mathis <brian.mat...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> That's what VMware is for. >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:52 PM, timcharper <timchar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm wanting to build something along the lines of: >> > >> > * I close the puppetmaster repo locally >> > * I start it up, puppetmasterd --confdir ~/path/to/conf >> > * I ssh in to the machine I want to work with, using ssh -R >> > 8140:127.0.0.1:8140 >> > * Then, on the remote machine, I run puppetd --test --server 127.0.0.1 >> > >> > Is this crazy? Is there a better way, more established way to do >> > something like this? >> > >> > My main interest is to be able to have a testing puppetmaster that I >> > can update and hit while working on a specific instance, get it >> > working, and then merge it to our main puppet master. Currently our >> > staging environment is being run on the same boxes as production, so >> > we don't have the luxury of a separate cluster. >> > >> > Thanks :) >> > >> > Tim >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
