[Puppet Users] Puppet Labs Newsletter coming to Puppet Users list

2011-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
I wanted to give you all a heads up that we're going to start sending our Puppet Labs Newsletter to the puppet-users list once a month. You can see older versions here: http://puppetlabs.com/resources/newsletter/ You'll see from the other versions that each month we cover the whole Puppet ecosys

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages from debian backports?

2011-12-22 Thread Walter Heck
I guess your best workaround then is to pin the package and all it's dependencies to backports. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 18:16, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Matt Zagrabelny > wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Walter Heck > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Dec

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Best practice for module params in foo::params

2011-12-22 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Walter Heck wrote: > Hmm, that's the second time in two weeks someone mentions hiera as a > solution for a problem that cannot easily be solved inside puppet, I guess > it's time to go check it out :) We're committed to Hiera, and are looking to integrate it as

[Puppet Users] Re: Network config module won't work. -Mac address errors

2011-12-22 Thread Luke
I mean does the code look ok? Are we thinking that it is a prob with the vm config on the esx side? On Dec 21, 4:30 pm, Luke wrote: > Hi, > > The macaddress in the vm is set to automatic but the populated value > matches exactly the value that I put into the file, that is where I > got it from (

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages from debian backports?

2011-12-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Walter Heck wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:19, Tom De Vylder wrote: >>> >>> How about this: >>> >>> package { 'puppetmaster/squeeze-backports': >>>  ensure => installed, >>> } >>> >>> Looks a l

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: What is the offical variable scope best practice?

2011-12-22 Thread Walter Heck
Just to make sure I fully understand this subject, could some provide a little meta-example of what node variables and dynamic scoping are? I'm sure I'm not the only one unsure here :) On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:07, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 3:07 pm, zoredache wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2:2

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Best practice for module params in foo::params

2011-12-22 Thread Walter Heck
Hmm, that's the second time in two weeks someone mentions hiera as a solution for a problem that cannot easily be solved inside puppet, I guess it's time to go check it out :) On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 15:56, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 3:40 pm, Walter Heck wrote: > > Hello, > > > > a rela

[Puppet Users] Re: What is the offical variable scope best practice?

2011-12-22 Thread jcbollinger
On Dec 21, 3:07 pm, zoredache wrote: > On Nov 17, 2:21 pm, jcbollinger > There is none.  Variables declared > inside node definitions are not> accessible elsewhere except via > dynamic scoping.  As a result, in 2.8> they will not be accesible > outside their node definitions at all. > > Which al

[Puppet Users] Re: Best practice for module params in foo::params

2011-12-22 Thread jcbollinger
On Dec 21, 3:40 pm, Walter Heck wrote: > Hello, > > a related question here on this list sparked me to write this question, > which has been bugging me for a bit now: > > I use the following pattern inside my modules quite abit: > > class foo::params{ > >   $bar = $::foo_bar ? { >     '' => 'som

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages from debian backports?

2011-12-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Walter Heck wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:19, Tom De Vylder wrote: >> >> How about this: >> >> package { 'puppetmaster/squeeze-backports': >>  ensure => installed, >> } >> >> Looks a lot easier to me. It takes all the dependencies it needs from >> squeez

[Puppet Users] Puppet Master's Certificate Authority - how might I use it for other than just puppet ?

2011-12-22 Thread Dan White
First, some background to show how I got to this question. The particular idea I have is to use it for rsyslog certificates. I was planning to use the process described [1]here to run a CA on the puppet master machine, and then use puppet to distribute/maintain the certificates. The process sh

Re: [Puppet Users] Recommendation for general practice for application deployment?

2011-12-22 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, On 12/20/2011 05:26 PM, Kenneth Lo wrote: > So the question is, given the service resource is also within the same > module with the file, how do I make sure we can do the following > sequentially?: > > 1. Shutdown the tomcat instance (service resource in tomcat module) > 2. Update the appli

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages from debian backports?

2011-12-22 Thread Walter Heck
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:19, Tom De Vylder wrote: > How about this: > > package { 'puppetmaster/squeeze-backports': > ensure => installed, > } > > Looks a lot easier to me. It takes all the dependencies it needs from > squeeze when available. > If it can't find any suitable dependencies it wil

Re: [Puppet Users] installing packages from debian backports?

2011-12-22 Thread Tom De Vylder
On 22 Dec 2011, at 02:29, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Walter Heck wrote: >> Look into apt pinning, that is the way to pin specific packages to come from >> a specific origin. It's done in /etc/apt/preferences, the deep inner >> workings are a tad voodoo, but nothing

Re: [Puppet Users] no more passenger app in 2.7.9?

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Swen
ahh, great! that was the next hurdle we had! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/ro04C9RPeqYJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users