Hi All, The following situations are given:
a) We want to manage keytab files. Keytab files are owned by users (system users used for running services...). Currently the distribution of these files is solved with a recusive file resource and the puppet file server. The drawback is that the preparation of these keytab files is a "manual" process, or at least not managed by puppet. One of the problem is that the keys that are stored in the keytab files must be created once but have to be pushed the multiple servers. I wonder if there is a theory or best practice how to handle such situations better/more integrated with puppet? The other problem might be is that the creation of the keys and the keytab files might fail at different points through multiple steps. I wonder what would be the best way to "communicate" with the the user who e.g. executes puppetd? This is because this resource (the keys) is actually external to some extent, because these are actually have to be created on not puppet managed(external) hosts. b) Another use case could be if we wanted to manage e.g. volumes&exports on NAS appliances. Of course puppetd won't run on the appliance, however it could ssh or communicate via some API. Do you have any idea or experimented with anything like that with puppet? I think that the above could benefit from having a clear definition db built upon normal puppet language constructs describing the resources and their relations, but I am afraid that puppet is not designed with this in mind. I especially can't imagine how could puppet provide appropriate feedback. One might say that this should be done by and ad- hoc management tool like Func but it lacks the recorded and verifiable definition that puppet is great at. Thanks, /Bela --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
