you lose all the reporting functionality, but as long as you get all your puppet manifests and files accessible by the servers you want to run puppet on (rsync, nfs....whatever), you can just run puppet directly, although it now has to compile everything, even if its not needed, so its slower to run.
- Mike On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:04 PM, bonobo <limnsn...@gmail.com> wrote: > It appears that running a puppet server is essential. In his book > "Pulling Strings with Puppet", James Turnbull says: > > "... the node will request whatever configuration is specified for > that node. The master server will then compile and deliver that > configuration." [p. 25] > > Our firewall environment is very restrictive, and there's no way a > server on our publicly accessible network will be allowed to initiate > a connection to a puppet server on our internal network. (Of course, > I could run the puppet server on the publicly accessible network, but > you have no idea what a hassle that would be.) > > Since the configuration is compiled on the server, is it impossible to > run puppet without allowing clients to initiate connection to the > puppet server? > > BTW, this seems different from CfEngine. I believe compilation of the > configuration occurs on the client, not the server, but I'm not sure. > > Any information or insight would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > 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<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- 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.
