On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Mister IT Guru <misteritg...@gmx.com> > wrote: > > Ordinarily, I'd say lets upgrade your working practices while we're at > it, and properly manage your whole workflow, manage access and manage who > can make changes. Lets start by rebuilding your boxes to specification, and > migrating your existing data over. Sounds great, "Client says no" huh? - > Now I need to rethink my strategy. > > > One of the tools that's helpful in this situation is Puppet's no-op > mode. This gives you the ability to report in advance on what would > change during a Puppet run. It's helpful for reassuring angsty > customers as well as making a list of what might need to be reverted > in an emergency. > I concur to the advice all posters have given. I'll add that the three tools we've used to do stuff like this are: 1) puppet resource 2) blueprint http://pratikamin.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/generate-puppet-recipe-from-running-system/(These recipes that get generated really need hand tuning, as they are massive.) 3) puppet in --noop mode to validate. Generally we start with the manage nothing and go through and add resources and services one at a time. It's slow and tedious, and we don't like to do it, but you sometimes have to. Cheers, Brian -- > 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. > > -- <http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/> -- 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.
