As far as guis and provisioning, those are covered by Foreman (under heavy development at http://theforeman.org/)
(It doesn't do class building either, afaik nothing does right now.) On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Luis Miguel Silva < luismiguelferreirasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you so much Luke, that was very helpful! > > Luis > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:52 AM, luke.bigum <luke.bi...@fasthosts.co.uk> > wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
