I'm a pretty good candidate for a Puppet-fer-Windows guinea pig here
as I'd be able to get a lot of mileage out of just being able to use
the File, Service and Exec types on that platform ("Is game server
running?" "Has configuration been updated?" etc.) ... but I haven't
found much in puppet-users about what the current state is of Puppet
and Facter for Windows.
So here's what I've done so far on my Windows 7 desktop, just for fun:
* Installed the latest version of Ruby via RubyInstaller:
http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rubyinstaller/rubyinstaller-1.9.1-p429.exe
* Added ruby to my default path.
* Downloaded and expanded the puppet 2.6.0RC2 tarball.
* Ran the rakefile, watched it die. (oops)
* Ran install.rb, watched it choke on the nonexistence of C:
\Ruby191\sbin ...
* Created that directory, re-ran it, watched it choke on the
nonexistence of gzip.
* Decided to give up on the installer and see how far I could get in
running Puppet.
* Oh. No Facter installed.
* Pulled facter from github, latest revision so that maaaybe it'll
run on Windows:
http://download.github.com/reductivelabs-facter-1.5.7-35-g1bd2ca2.zip
* Expanded and ran facter's install.rb. Hmmm, seems like it
worked...
* Facter's not in my path. Oh. Maybe running this command will
work: ruby C:\Ruby191\bin\facter ...
* OMG! :
Could not retrieve puppetversion: Cannot determine basic system
flavour
domain => myactualdomain.local
facterversion => 1.5.7
fqdn => zod.myactualdomain.local
hardwaremodel => i686
hostname => zod
ipaddress => myactualipaddress
kernel => windows
kernelmajversion => 6.1
kernelrelease => 6.1.7600
kernelversion => 6.1.7600
macaddress => myactualmacaddress
operatingsystem => windows
operatingsystemrelease => 6.1.7600
path => C:\Ruby191\bin;c:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX
\Common;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:
\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files
(x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\
ps => ps -ef
rubyversion => 1.9.1
timezone => Central Daylight Time
* Tried to run Puppet in the same way: ruby C:\Ruby191\bin\puppet
describe
* Awww:
C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet/feature/base.rb:47:in `<top
(required)>': Cannot determine basic system flavour (Puppet::Error)
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet.rb:53:in
`require'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet.rb:53:in
`<module:Puppet>'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet.rb:26:in `<top
(required)>'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet/application.rb:
292:in `require'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet/application.rb:
292:in `initialize'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet/util/
command_line.rb:55: in `new'
from C:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet/util/
command_line.rb:55: in `execute'
from C:/ruby191/bin/puppet:4:in `<main>'
I'm assuming this is some kind of path problem and is therefore
inherent to my Ruby install, not so much a "Puppet is freaking out
because it's on Windows" problem. I thought I'd share my experience
here to see how far other people have gotten ... I'm not in the habit
of developing or running Ruby on Windows at all, and I know there are
multiple flavors of installer. I assume they behave differently.
Before I pour much more effort into this project -- I would LOVE to
bash my Windows game servers with the Puppet stick, it would make
pushing patches 2,415 times better -- I wanted to post and compare
notes with anyone else who was working on this.
And if *nobody's* trying this yet, and they're looking through The
Google ... I hope this helps you get it working.
-steve
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