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I'm new to puppet. I read a bunch, managed to write a simple (and probably clumsy) manifest to configure a host. Great, so time to be more serious. I configured a puppet master under apache2. (I'm on ubuntu 14.04 with packages at version 3.8 thanks to the deb from puppet labs <https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-trusty.deb>...) So far, so good, but I'm stuck on a couple points now. 1. The puppet master is running under apache2. I assume it's healthy, in so much as it doesn't complain and I'm serving on 8140. But I'd love a better way to confirm that than absence of errors. Is there a way to enquire about the master's health? 2. I would like to be able to do automated testing. For the agents (individual hosts in my (tiny) fleet) I can bring up vagrant vm's, tell them their name is X, and then do a puppet apply. So then I can see if the host comes up the way I expect for host X. Then I can run a script on the vm that checks whatever I think the host should actually be doing. But I'd like to automate that, yet I oddly haven't found common recipes for doing so. I bet this isn't something I need to invent. Any pointers? 3. In a similar vein, I'd like to do automated testing for the master as well. So this is (1) and (2) together, since I'm not sure how to test the master. 4. Our github repository is private. Is standard (best) practice to give the puppet master ssh keys to github without passphrase? Can/should I do better? Thanks much for any tips. Jeff Abrahamson +33 6 24 40 01 57 +44 7920 594 255 <-- only when I'm in the UK http://ml-week.com/ <http://www.ml-week.com/>* prochaine edition, 2016* http://jeff.purple.com/ http://blog.purple.com/jeff/ -- 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/CAM4Y7zyVji-WFc%3D699zRw_yQ%3DsEbTzpHQ7hDWxYv%3DHzAonGHFg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
