On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ryan Coleman <r...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:02 PM, thedonkdonk <thedonkd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a large puppet master / client setup with lots of files and >> templates and modules and so on. Is there a way to make a stand alone >> manifest for one server so I can hand it to a third party? > > If you mean to take the resultant catalog for a given machine and use > that same catalog on another machine without interacting with the > Puppet Master, you may want to take a look at the catalog Face. Try > running 'puppet man catalog' on a newer version of Puppet. > > In short, it sounds like you'd want to retrieve the catalog for > www03.example.com from the Puppet Master with the download action, > ship it around however you'd like and use the apply action with > --terminus yaml to apply that catalog. > > Does that sound like what you're looking for? You're going to lose > some things like remote file retrieval and dynamic facts evaluation by > taking this approach but if you can't access a Puppet Master or apply > local modules, this is another route you can take.
Yes, this sounds like what I am looking for. I need to include file content as well as package and user management. Will this work? Should I try a different tactic? -- Thanks, James Glenn -- 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.
