Hello, > I've got a nice little VirtualBox test VLAN with a puppetmaster and 3 > nodes, and I use it for trying out new classes before they go to the > real puppetmaster for testing. > > After a few months of playing around, my poor little puppets are > running all sorts of rubbish; NFS, networked syslog, mysql, apache, > etc. This is entirely my fault, because I just 'unapply' my modules > from the nodes. > > What's the 'best' way to 'deapply', or clear out a resource/class in > Puppet? Do people generally just edit your manifests along the lines > of change 'ensure => present' to 'ensure => absent'? > > Re-Kickstarting is always an option, I suppose ... :)
On my test/sandbox machines, I usually setup a single root partition on an LVM volume, then patch /sbin/mkinitrd to make it create an LVM snapshot and mount it instead of the "original" root partition. This way, I just have to reboot the system to "reset" it's state to what it was just after the installation. I believe virtualbox has a disk snapshot functionality, which doesn't require tinkering with mkinitrd. Marc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
