Hi "dbs", Hi Matthew, Thanks a lot for your detailed answers!
Jens On Jun 14, 3:39 pm, Matthew Marlowe <m...@deploylinux.net> wrote: > > Not at all, Puppet with vmware guest platforms is fantastic. > > +1 > > More to the point, puppet seems best at allowing rapid scale out of > applications via virtualization. Our policy is to deploy all linux virtual > machines via puppet. > > It is the physical machines serving as hypervisors or as critical cluster > management/infrastructure that we don't let puppet currently touch. > > > We have a procedure in place that uses kickstart with CentOS and > > puppet for post-install configuration that can bring a system up and > > on the net and with all packages installed in under 10 minutes. We > > deploy hosts constantly using this method, and each new host comes up > > already puppet-managed, with vmware tools installed, and ready for > > final configuration. > > We currently do cloning of a template VM for new rhel nodes. We've avoided > kickstart because a) we already have to go into vcenter to create/configure > new vms properly and b) there isn't much that kickstart would give us we > don't already get from cloning and running scripts after clone. When/if we > can get to a point that puppet dashboard can tell vcenter to spawn a new vm, > provision appropriate virtual hardware and vm settings, start kickstart, and > then start puppet, then we'll switch to that :) > > -Matt > -- > Matthew Marlowe -http://www.deploylinux.net/ > CEO @ DeployLinux Consulting, Inc > m...@deploylinux.net, 858-400-7430http://www.twitter.com/deploylinux -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
