On Feb 28, 7:50 pm, Luis Miguel Silva <luismiguelferreirasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm a software integrator and i'm currently evaluating Puppet to > understand how we can potentially integrate our products with it. > I've been reading documentation on it and i'm currently installing a > Puppet system but i have some questions that i was hoping someone > could answer? > > a) In this page, it says that Puppet Enterprise supports provisioning > but the documentation i've seen so far only shows the maintenance > aspects of Puppet?http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-enterprise/faq/ > a.1) does Puppet do provisioning?
Not in the sense that I think you're thinking of. You can't PXE boot and kickstart a server with Puppet - it's not a replacement for Cobbler. However, depending on your definition of provisioning, if you had a single server image that just had Puppet on it, from there you could continue it's installation with Puppet into some server type you use Puppet to describe. > b) Also, i've seen references to > Windows:http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/platforms.html > b.1) Does Puppet run on Windows? > b.2) Does it actually support doing maintenance on Windows OSes? Yes, but I believe this is no where near as functional as Puppet on *nix servers. Someone from Puppet Labs can probably give you a better idea of exactly what is and isn't possible with a Windows Puppet client. > c) I've read somewhere that Puppet has some sort of graphical > interface where you can edit the RAL classes and graphically insert > logic into them (i.e. dependencies and stuff) The closest thing to a GUI interface is Puppet Dashboard. IMO it's still maturing and more useful as a reporting tool at the moment. You can't write a module from Puppet Dashboard, so it's not a replacement for a text editor and the command line. If you use Puppet Dashboard as your external node classifier, then you've got some control over the behaviour of your nodes and classes, however you cannot "edit classes and graphically insert logic into them" from Dashboard. > c.1) Where can i find that interface? http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/dashboard/ > Thanks in advance, > Luis Silva Hope that helps, -Luke -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
