John Cheers again for the response...
Commented in-line below... Cheers Gav On 18 February 2013 15:08, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Monday, February 18, 2013 2:13:26 AM UTC-6, Gavin Williams wrote: >> >> No-one doing anything similar? >> >> > Puppet is all about managing nodes to a known-in-advance state. You can > encapsulate stateful logic inside 'providers' for custom or built-in > resource types. You also might be able to model steps or groups of steps > as a separate classes, provided that no node state set by one such class > subsequently needs to be modified by another. > > Alternatively, you might need or want to use multiple Puppet runs to step > through this process. Indeed, that may be necessary if you need the same > resource (as Puppet sees it) to be managed to two or more different states > during the course of the process. > > I was expecting the full state transition to take several Puppet runs, as the initial data replication to get from start to an 'Initialized' state could take anything from a couple of minutes to a couple of days... So changing the required state of the resource in-between runs was an expected step - ideally it would be automated, but could be manual I guess... I don't have any knowledge of the specific software stack you are > configuring, so I'm afraid I can't offer detailed suggestions. One way or > another, Puppet can probably be made to perform this process for you, but > that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best tool for the job. One > alternative might be to script multiple puppet runs in series, each > selecting different classes to apply via tags. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
