----- Original Message ----- | I'm wondering what people are doing systems provisioning with, ie the | process that gets puppet installed onto a system, running for the | first time, and also the handling of certificate signing and so | forth. | I don't see this topic discussed much. | | The mc-provision tools at | https://github.com/ripienaar/mcollective-server-provisioner don't | seem | to be actively developed anymore, or at least I wasn't able to find | enough documentation to be able to effectively make use of it. | | Doug
We have some custom written tools that look after management of our systems since we're integrating with a very large Active Directory in an environment that requires us to pre-stage machines into certain locations. This tool generates a puppet manifest that manages the generation and removal of puppet keys from a central mirror server that all of our clients fetch as part of our post configuration. Essentially, the hosts ensure that they have a proper FQDN, then they fetch the puppet certificates from the mirror server and proceed to run puppet and configure themselves. You can also use other tools like The Foreman to provision machines. MCollective is certainly actively developed but perhaps that module is not. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life but as by the obstacles they have overcome. - Booker T. Washington -- 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.
