Unless I am seriously mistaken, "masterless Puppet" is achieved by each node being its own master. And since puppet-master does not work on Windows (agent only) I suspect that masterless Windows puppet is mot currently possible.
I could be mistaken. "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > On Jan 10, 2014, at 2:49 AM, Johan De Wit <jo...@open-future.be> wrote: > > > This book : http://www.packtpub.com/puppet-3-beginners-guide/book is > describing a masterless setup with git. As all books about puppet, the > setup is linux based. > I dontt' have any experience with windows. > > Grts > > Jo > >> On 01/09/2014 06:54 PM, pskovshu...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> We have a number of servers that we would like to manage remotely - mainly >> to set the servers up with relevant software/files when they are first set >> up. Additionally, we would like to make changes after the initial set up. >> For now, we would like to concentrate only on new servers and leave existing >> servers unmanaged. All servers are Windows ones with a mix of 2003 and 2008. >> >> I've been playing with Puppet Open Source for a number of weeks now and I >> have a few questions. I am considering doing a masterless setup as we >> generally want to do a one time set up and most of the servers are >> different. There are a number of things that they share, such as hosts file >> but only some servers require, say, Apache installed. It needs to be easy to >> use and generally idiot-proof. >> >> I understand that with masterless set up, I simply need to run puppet apply >> <file.pp> on each server and that's fine. To do it remotely, I am thinking >> of using something like psexec tool from Microsoft. However, it's not >> exactly fool proof. Yes, there are a couple of front-ends for psexec but I >> would ideally like something web UI based. I could write my own front-end in >> PHP but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if something already exists. Is >> there something web-based that I am able to kick off "puppet apply" command >> from? I would ideally like to run it in Apache under Windows so I can do >> away with Linux altogether. >> >> I've been battling with getting the likes of passenger working with the >> puppet master but essentially gave up as I am not overly hot with Linux and >> I've been getting a ton of dependency errors (Ruby mainly) without being >> able to resolve them. So, that's pretty much out of the window and partially >> the reason why I decided to go masterless. >> >> Also, I've seen a few git based solutions but having never used git, it's a >> bit over my head and there are no simple step-by-step tutorials that I could >> follow. >> >> Any advice appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> Alex >> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/0c1dcd28-3bb9-4759-899a-e00559e783d9%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > Johan De Wit > > Open Source Consultant > > Red Hat Certified Engineer (805008667232363) > Puppet Certified Professional 2013 (PCP0000006) > _________________________________________________________ > Open-Future Phone +32 (0)2/255 70 70 > Zavelstraat 72 Fax +32 (0)2/255 70 71 > 3071 KORTENBERG Mobile +32 (0)474/42 40 73 > BELGIUM http://www.open-future.be > _________________________________________________________ > > Next Events: > Puppet Fundamentals Training | > http://www.open-future.be/puppet-fundamentals-training-4-till-6th-february > Puppet Intruction Course | > http://www.open-future.be/puppet-introduction-course-7th-february > Zabbix Certified Training | > http://www.open-future.be/zabbix-certified-training-10-till-12th-february > Zabbix for Large Environments Training | > http://www.open-future.be/zabbix-large-environments-training-13-till-14th-february > Subscribe to our newsletter | http://eepurl.com/BUG8H > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/52CFA61E.9040708%40open-future.be. > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/726048E1-A883-408C-803D-A0C8D849BCD3%40icloud.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
