Thanks for your reply. To answer your question, yes the new VM will be built with puppet installed and configured. Since I posted this I have found out that the mac address will not persist upon reboot so I need to find another way of naming each new VM uniquely before it can be configured by puppet. Thanks again.
Cheers, David On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am a noob too.... but this is how I understand Puppet: > > Some mechanism will build a new VM with puppet installed and > configured on it. right? > At first run, puppet daemon will contact the puppetmaster submitting a > cert request > Master will sign request (automatically or manually by admin) > From that point on: > - Puppet daemon will connect to master, and say my name is, my ip is, > my fact1 is, my fact2 is.... > - Puppet master will say: here is you config. > > the facts include MAC addresses. > > I'd recommend looking at what foreman has to offer: > http://theforeman.org/ > > Mohamed. > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:32 PM, dagrundy <dagru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello All: > > > > This is my first posting to this group and I hope I am not asking > > something that I could have found the answer to myself. I am trying > > to set up a mechanism for quickly provisioning customized virtual > > machines (VMs) and looking at puppet as a means to implementing this. > > The concept is this. Take a base VM and offer user packages to choose > > for on their custom VM. Then use puppet to manage configuration of > > custom VM. One challenge I am experiencing is that the base VM is > > cloned for each new instance. Each custom VM then does not have a > > unique hostname, its IP address is dynamically allocated at creation > > and the IP address may not persist upon reboot. The one unique > > identifier on each VM is the mac address. Is there some way that > > puppet can be configured so that the way it identifies new nodes is by > > means of the mac addresses? I am an absolute newb to puppet so I am > > not sure if this question was dealt with in earlier postings. I am > > running 0.22.4 just because that is what was in the yum repository. I > > am certainly willing to upgrade if that is any help. I am not sure if > > I am giving enough info here so please let me know if more is > > required. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > > > David > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > > > -- > " Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition." > Jacques Hadamard > > -- > 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.
