On Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:53:28 AM UTC-7, Romeo Theriault wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Daniel Sauble <djsau...@puppetlabs.com> > wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I've been designing a new feature for Puppet, and wanted to get some > > kick-back from the community to see if you think this is needed or not. > The > > feature is called Puppet Sites, and meets some specific goals by means > of a > > few tasks. > > > > Securely add nodes to your deployment without manually signing > certificates > > on the CA... > > > > ...so that you can have the advantages of autosigning without its > security > > problems. > > > > Get a list of all the nodes in your deployment... > > > > ...so that a single command can give you what previously you had to > trawl > > multiple services (ENCs, CAs, etc...) on each Puppet master in your > > deployment to retrieve. > > > > Store connection information for Puppet services in a central location > > (accessible from manifests, puppet.conf, and defaults.rb)... > > > > ...so that you don't have to manage puppet.conf files on each node in > your > > population > > ...so that agent/master/CA configuration stays consistent across your > > deployment > > ...so that you can update your config and fetch a new catalog in a > single > > operation. > > > > Thanks in advance for the feedback! > > - Daniel > > Hi Daniel, thanks for dropping a note to get some feedback on this. > While these features sound very nice I personally would find it > interesting and might have more to add if you went into a bit of > detail about how you plan to implement these features. > > At this point, I'm trying to elicit feedback around user needs and desires, without tying the discussion to implementation details. If any of these goals don't seem particularly interesting to you, or if you have any goals I haven't addressed, or if you need clarification around what I mean in any of my bullet points, I'd love to hear what you think.
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