On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:14:51PM +0200, Walter Heck wrote: > Go with Debian or an Ubuntu LTS version instead of the latest Ubuntu, > you'll have much longer support: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)#Releases > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Releases
I concur with the point of using Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS for the centre of your puppet infrastructure. I've been creating and maintaining puppet infrastructure for Debian 6, Ubuntu 10.04, and CentOS 5/6 in parallel. My preferences for ease of puppetized management, platform stability, and lack of unpleasant surprises go roughly in that order too. > Enjoy! > > Walter Heck > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 16:48, Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Over the last week or so I've been banging my head against the wall trying > > to get dashboard working and trying to figure out why "end of file" reports > > are happening during some of my puppet runs. In the process of hacking > > around I've managed to trash my puppetmaster so I'm going to do something > > I've been wanting to do for a while and build a new puppet master server > > from scratch. > > > > I started this last night and got (surprise, surprise) dashboard working on > > the first try. Still haven't messed around with passenger but that's next > > on my hit parade. > > > > I've also decided to do something else that I've been putting off and set up > > a wiki as an open notebook to the world where I'm going to document my steps > > as they happen from OS build to working puppet master with dashboard. The > > OS I've picked (since it worked so smoothly last night) is Ubuntu 11. The > > ruby that comes with it is 1.8.7 out of the box. > > > > I've been wanting to retire the last of my CentOS boxes since versionitis > > seems to bite me more often on that platform than any of my Debian and > > friends boxen. > > > > Any knowledge donations are quite welcomed. > > > > > > -- > > Peter L. Berghold > > Owner, Shark River Technical Solutions LLC > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > Walter Heck > > -- > follow @walterheck on twitter to see what I'm up to! > -- > Check out my new startup: Server Monitoring as a Service @ http://tribily.com > Follow @tribily on Twitter and/or 'Like' our Facebook page at > http://www.facebook.com/tribily > > -- > 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.
