Gonna take a wild guess that there are plans to support other providers.. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 'Cloud Provisioner' seems like a funny name if it's only designed to manage > Amazon EC2 instances. Why didn't you just call it the 'Amazon Provisioner' ? > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > >> We are happy to announce the first public release candidate of our Puppet >> Cloud Provisioner. >> >> This release is available for download at our Module Forge: >> http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/cloud_provisioner<http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/> >> >> Extensive documentation can be found at: >> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/cloud_pack_getting_started.html >> >> Please report feedback via the Puppet Labs Redmine site, using an >> affected version of 0.6.0rc1: >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/cloud-pack<http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/dashboard> >> >> >> Overview: >> >> The Puppet Cloud Provisioner was written to make it easier to deploy and >> configure instances in EC2 using Puppet. >> >> It contains the following command line actions: >> >> puppet node create - Launches a new Amazon EC2 instance. >> >> puppet node install - Installs Puppet on an EC2 instance. >> >> puppet node init - Installs Puppet on a machine instance and automatically >> signs its certificates. >> >> puppet node list - Lists deployed EC2 instances in a certain region. >> >> puppet node terminate - Terminates running EC2 instance. >> >> >> For more detailed information about the available commands, download the >> module and run: >> >> puppet help node >> >> More Details about the iteration leading up to this release >> === >> * Add --type option to launch different EC2 instance sizes >> * (#7510) Add inline documentation for actions and options >> * (#8286) Warn if the payload used with the install action is not a tar.gz >> file >> * (#8265) Make the platform flag optional and default to 'AWS' (Note, >> puppet-provisioner provisions AWS EC2 instances in this release) >> * (#7511) Add the ability to launch instances in any EC2 region using the >> --region option. The default region is us-east-1 >> * (#8157) Improve the feedback of the terminate action by explicitly >> stating >> the instance has been terminated. >> * (#8185) Add a list action to list EC2 instances and their current >> status. >> * (#8343) Print the EC2 instance public DNS name as soon as it is >> available >> * (#8350) Change all output to use Puppet's configured log destination >> * (#8348) Add a fingerprint action to make a best effort to obtain the SSH >> public host key fingerprint from the launched EC2 instance. >> * (#7508) Add the ability to install Puppet using rubygems on a target >> system. >> * (#7508) Improve the install action using template scripts to install >> Puppet >> on launched systems. >> * (#8403) Replace dependency on uuidgen Mac OS X executable with guid gem. >> * (#8422) Catch the exit status of installation script and display an >> error if >> they're non zero. >> * (#8204) Include a puppet enterprise install script that downloads from >> S3. >> This should improve install times on low bandwidth connections. >> * (#8472) Add support for non-root logins when installing puppet on a >> target >> system. >> * (#8493) Rename cloudpack to cloud-provisioner >> >> -- >> Jeff McCune >> @0xEFF >> Join us for PuppetConf <http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppetconf>, Sept >> 22-23 in Portland, OR >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Douglas Garstang > http://www.linkedin.com/in/garstang > Email: doug.garst...@gmail.com > Cell: +1-805-340-5627 > > > -- > 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.