On Monday, December 29, 2014 1:52:41 PM UTC-8, Alejandro del Castillo wrote: > > Hello, > > We are looking at the different options out there to build a System > Management solution for embedded systems. I am encouraged by the fact that > puppet support opkg and it's already in use by OpenWRT (we build our own > distribution, but it's opkg-based). Digging/experimenting around with > puppet, it looks like it can do most of what we want. We would need to > write several modules, custom UI, etc, but it looks doable. The only > problem is that we absolutely must have Windows support for the host. That > is a deal breaker requirement, as many of our customers (unfortunately) > will expect Windows on the server side. As I am looking at options, I would > like to understand what would be the effort for the Windows port of the > server side components (at least puppet master, hiera, possibly puppetDB). > I do get that this is not a priority for the community and do understand > that if we take this approach, we would be maintaining the Windows server > side, which is something that is on the table for us. > > Alejandro,
Puppet Server and PuppetDB both run on the JVM, so, theoretically they might "Just Work" on Windows. We don't provide packaging, so you'd probably need to just try running them from source. Both projects have docs on how to run from source: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetserver/1.0/dev_running_from_source.html https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/latest/install_from_source.html Hiera, to some degree, is a kind of plugin that runs inside the server, so it should work fine with Puppet Server. I'm not aware of any efforts to run these apps on Windows, so, your mileage may vary... and I'm not aware of it being on our product roadmap to provide official support for Windows on the server-side. That said, I'm not aware of any reason why it *shouldn't* work, so would be interested to hear about your results if you decide to try it. -- 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/90266123-78db-4122-aff9-ca2a4faf769f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
