On 07/16/2014 03:04 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > Supposed I have 200 different machines (VMs) sitting on each > developer's desktop (rather in their VMware hypervisor)... > 1) can they all have the same certname, so I only have to maintain a > single node.pp manifest? > > > > Yes, they can. I'm doubtful of the wisdom of this idea, but there is no > actual constraint against nodes using the same cert. As far as the > master is concerned, all the machines using that cert are the same machine.
Just don't. The master will get confused by the (potentially) different fact values from the separate agents and your results can become unpredictable. This depends on your manifest of course, and whether you rely on facts at all. > Use UUIDs for certnames if there's nothing else you can be confident > will be unique. Set up a UUID server if need be, though you could > probably just distribute a little UUID generator instead of centralizing. Facter actually comes with a UUID generator - see `facter uniqueid`. Cheers, Felix -- 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/53C686D9.2030402%40alumni.tu-berlin.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
