I just use capistrano to do atomic updates of my manifest directory. For those who haven't used capistrano, it checks out a new copy to <dir>/releases/<timestamp>, symlinks it to <dir>/current (which is where Puppet is configured to look) and then restarts the unicorns.
On 4 January 2011 13:35, Richard Crowley <r...@rcrowley.org> wrote: > So, here's my question: if you are currently using the "svn update" > approach to manage /etc/puppet on the puppetmaster, have you taken > conscious steps to help avoid a race condition? If so, what are they? > And if not, why not? > > I do something like this to deploy all web apps, the Puppet master included: > SHA=$(git rev-parse HEAD) > git archive --prefix=puppet-$SHA/ $SHA | gzip >puppet-$SHA.tar.gz > scp puppet-$SHA.tar.gz puppet:/etc > ssh puppet " > tar xf /etc/puppet-$SHA.tar.gz -C /etc > ln -s /etc/puppet-$SHA /etc/puppet+ > mv -T /etc/puppet+ /etc/puppet > #find /etc -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \ > # -name puppet-\* -and -not -name puppet-$SHA | xargs rm -rf > " > The `mv -T /etc/puppet+ /etc/puppet` ends up calling rename(2). > Rich > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
