Thanks Garrett - so can you confirm then that ensure => present will never try to upgrade a package after the initial install?
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:39:02 AM UTC-7, Garrett Honeycutt wrote: > > On 5/15/14, 11:19 AM, Guy Knights wrote: > > I'm looking at ways to better automate our build pipeline and I'm trying > > to envision ways to get our latest code package onto servers, while also > > being able to update this package at specific, later times. > > > > The code will be served from a local yum repository, so I figure we can > > install the latest version on new systems using an "ensure => present" > > in a package resource, and then push out updates from our bamboo server > > via mcollective. I understand that it's possible to install packages > > directly using mcollective via a plugin such as this one: > > https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-package-agent. What I also am > > led to believe is that if I use the "ensure => present" in the package > > resource, that puppet will not make any attempts (after the initial > > install) to upgrade to a newer version of the package. > > > > Does this seem like a valid way to get our code onto servers, ensuring > > that puppet won't run arbitrary upgrades at some random later point? > > > > Thanks, > > Guy > > > > Hi Guy, > > This is a good approach that I have been advocating for some time. The > drawback to 'ensure => latest' is that your systems could update > whenever a new package is released to your repo. If puppet is set to run > in a staggered fashion across your systems, as is the default approach, > then your system would upgrade at different times, which is generally a > very bad thing. Using MCollective to trigger when updates happen means > that it happens at the same time and when you expect it, such as during > a maintenance window. > > Best regards, > -g > > -- > Garrett Honeycutt > @learnpuppet > Puppet Training with LearnPuppet.com > Mobile: +1.206.414.8658 > -- 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/f86021fe-c0d7-401c-938c-bcf2e0c48ef0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
