Hi Brian, Puppet support on Windows has evolved considerably since you last tried. I recommend looking at this wiki page describing how to get started, what types are supported, and other Windows considerations:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Windows Josh On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Brian Dunbar <brian.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Windows - Puppet - Documentation seems to be lacking. I may not be > looking in the right place. Help? > > > I'm starting a second effort [1] with Puppet at work. Got the master > running, an agent (look we can change the login banner!). A fellow > from the Windows server team wandered over. > > They like the Unix side of the office because it's a lot calmer over > here, without a lot of excited managers running around yammering about > downtime and production outages. > > I explained "It's like SMS but for Solaris. And Linux. Look, I can > change the login banner on all 200 hosts by editing _a_ file ..." > > He got real excited and started babbling about making sure all files > on his IIS cluster were synched up. To be honest I'm not sure what he > was talking about (he'd been up the night before with a production > problem with IIS and was kinda punchy) but the idea of Puppet > dropping 'a' copy of 'a' file to umpty-dozen servers seemed to make > him real happy. > > > So what's the deal with Puppet and Windows? I see from this mail list > people have got it going as an agent, but I can't find much in the way > of documentation. > > Anything like a doc, a how-to, a readme out there for Puppet / > Windows? > > > [1] 1st effort a few years ago made it to the pilot stage (look we can > change the login banner!) then died for lack of time and management > attention. > > -- > 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. > > -- Josh Cooper Developer, Puppet Labs -- 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.
