I'm piloting a puppet deployment that may grow to a fair size (~100 nodes, at least two distinct sites, dev/stage/prod environments). I'm struggling a bit with settling on a strategy and processes for managing and deploying puppet code.
As seems to be generally accepted best practice and as required by the fact that there will be multiple teams likely to contribute modules for their applications, I'm managing the code for each internally-developed module in separate repositories - some SVN and some git-based, depending on the working practices of the different teams. I also want to make sure we have a way of pushing different modules through the different environments at their own pace (application a's module might be ready to move into production while application b's module should remain in UAT). My issues are around how to pull all these modules together, and how to move them through dev/stage/prod environments in sane a reasonably simple way. There are a number whitepapers and descriptions of process around which mainly seem to rely on having a single git repo with different branches representing the different environments. I've got a kind of process working which links together different internal modules, as well as the git-hub sources of modules that have been published to the forge, making use of azimux's externals project (https://github.com/azimux/externals). This works quite nicely for constructing an unstable trunk/master and could be used to push monolithic tags through uat and prod. My current system for deploying individual tags, though, relies on creating a library of tagged modules and a forest of symlinks under $environment/modules. It works, but it is so complex it confuses me, let alone anyone else. Using forge-style modules seems to be the way to go, but these will need management, too. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/rVjji3SQhC8J. 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.
