OpenShifit is trying to abstract away a lot of the issues with this type of scenario.
Unfortunately, I'm not certain of the support on non RHEL-based distros at this point but the idea is at least worth looking at. http://openshift.github.io/ On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Klavs Klavsen <kl...@enableit.dk> wrote: > I know of several who have managed servers, but want to use Puppet to roll > manage the applications they install, and whatelse they have been allowed > to manage - but that will never be able to run puppet as root, since the OS > is not their responsibility. > > Also - some of those, the managers of the server use puppet (as root) to > set them up - but again - they can't share puppet repo.. so it would be > preferrable to be able to install root elsewhere (they build their own > patched version of puppet, to make it support installing under /opt - not > something puppet supports very well currently). They are also using puppet > on a lot of diff. unix OS'es - so they have to compile it for several > themselves, and since they want thing uniform (and none-intrusive) - they > choose to install under /opt on all. > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 tvaug...@onyxpoint.com -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
