On 30 Jan 2016, at 13:48, Tim Coote <tim.coo...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the best way to test upgrades of puppetmaster? I'm trying to migrate > from 3.x to 4.x on a small network. An obvious step for me was to create the > new manifests on a new VM and then to confirm that the existing puppet agents > wouldn't have any changes if they try to use that server for updates.
Another approach is possible by using directory based environments on a Puppet 3.8 master: copy production environment to a puppet4upgradetest environment. Put an environment.conf file into the new environment where you specify to make use of the future parser: future_parser = true Let any node do a puppet agent run in noop mode against the new environment: puppet agent —test —environment puppet4upgradetest You should take care on any puppet master errors and node changes. Create a new node and let that node get its initial configuration from the new environment. Afterwards run the agent against the production environment. You have tot take care on all changes which would be done by the old puppet 3 production environment. And (of course) you want to do unit and integration testing on modules and roles&profiles. > > However, this approach falls as the certificates on the clients aren't > recognised by the server. I'd guess that there's going to be similar identity > issues from the clients' point of view if I get past this step. No need for a new CA. Just sign the node certificates on the Puppet master. hth, Martin > > Is there a more pragmatic test plan to follow? > > The puppet documentation seems to leave it as an exercise to the user that > 'nothing has broken' in the migration. Clearly this makes sense for changes > to the client configurations, but even then some sort of 'diff' between the > configurations would help. > > tc > > -- > 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/CAKZLxiUcbkfcOZ7a0ciAAaK8WercHQZxY4Fv2G-21CsYG5xODg%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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/0203A93D-2FCE-4960-879B-283868B62D53%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
