Re: [Puppet Users] Could not find resource, but it's there.

2017-01-09 Thread Thomas Müller
Wouldnt it work anyways (if manifest order or not) because the file typeauto-reqires its parents? https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/types/file.html#file-description -Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe fr

Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant

2017-01-09 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Original Message - > From: "John Gelnaw" > To: "puppet-users" > Sent: Tuesday, 10 January, 2017 01:17:58 > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant > On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 2:39:38 PM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote: >> >> >> Because if i can convince your client to connect

Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant

2017-01-09 Thread Rob Nelson
I think certificate handling is a valid critique of puppet's security implementation. Running a public key infrastructure of any sort is difficult. Things like expired CAs and a lack of intermediate signing CAs does expose puppet administrators who are lacking those fairly rare skill sets to some d

Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant

2017-01-09 Thread John Gelnaw
On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 2:39:38 PM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > > > Because if i can convince your client to connect to $evil_ca, then what? > How's it to know its a new legit ca and not a new bad ca? > The same way it "knew" when you originally provisioned it-- It didn't. In fact, the a

[Puppet Users] Recommendations or Guide for module testing against Puppet Enterprise?

2017-01-09 Thread tyler via Puppet Users
*tl;dr* what is the officially endorsed way to leverage beaker to run tests against PE (sp. 2016/7.x) in a CI type of setup? I've beaten my head against beaker-{pe,rspec} etc. enough that I assume others may be running into similar problems or guesswork, so bear with me: Thus far I've been able

Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant

2017-01-09 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Original Message - > From: "John Gelnaw" > To: "puppet-users" > Sent: Monday, 9 January, 2017 20:14:00 > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant > On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10:10:08 AM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote: >> >> >> so we're on the same page are you just saying in

Re: [Puppet Users] 2016.4.2 puppet enterprise

2017-01-09 Thread Carthik Sharma
Hi Ryan, On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Ryan Vande wrote: > I went to take the test last week, they had questions about live > management. To be honest the testing center monitors were so small all of > the content would not fit on the page, I spent so much time resizing > windows, I ran out of

Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant

2017-01-09 Thread John Gelnaw
On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10:10:08 AM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > > > so we're on the same page are you just saying in general the NTP module > has too much > going on and its too huge for a "simple" piece of software? > Mostly, it was the unexpected syntax. Somehow, I completely missed a

Re: [Puppet Users] making manifest puppet 4 aware

2017-01-09 Thread Vince Skahan
On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 11:28:33 AM UTC-8, Rob Nelson wrote: > > With puppet4 showing up in vendor repos, is it safe to assume those > versions will not have an aio_agent_version fact? > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Gabriel Schuyler > wrote: > >> Hey Vince, the $::aio_agent_version f

Re: [Puppet Users] 2016.4.2 puppet enterprise

2017-01-09 Thread Ryan Vande
I went to take the test last week, they had questions about live management. To be honest the testing center monitors were so small all of the content would not fit on the page, I spent so much time resizing windows, I ran out of time to finish the test. I seen what the test is composed of and

Re: [Puppet Users] Design Patterns - Profiles & Shared Information

2017-01-09 Thread Peter Kristolaitis
We use something that's halfway between the second and third options. We use standardized namespaces in Hiera that group together logical sets of data (we use it mostly for distributed app configuration, but you could easily apply this to system configuration), then we pull that into our profi

Re: [Puppet Users] 2016.4.2 puppet enterprise

2017-01-09 Thread Rob Nelson
Live Management was deprecated back in PE3.8 and I don't believe it has returned. PE3 support expired on 1/1/2017. I would hope it's not on the test because of that, even if it's still in some study guides. Rob Nelson rnels...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Ryan Vande wrote: > I ha

[Puppet Users] 2016.4.2 puppet enterprise

2017-01-09 Thread Ryan Vande
I have installed puppet enterprise 2016.4.2 and am using the free ten nodes license. I am studying for the ppt-204 and have seen questions related to live management. I have searched high / low / left / right , where do live management go? All examples shown for live management show that is av

Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant

2017-01-09 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Original Message - > From: "John Gelnaw" > To: "puppet-users" > Sent: Monday, 9 January, 2017 15:56:34 > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant > On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 2:31:33 PM UTC-5, Rob Nelson wrote: >> >> There are a lot of very valid issues and concerns you b

Re: [Puppet Users] Over-engineering rant

2017-01-09 Thread John Gelnaw
On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 2:31:33 PM UTC-5, Rob Nelson wrote: > > There are a lot of very valid issues and concerns you bring up here. I do > want to start by saying, however, that puppet 4 is more than 6 months old - > about 20 months to be precise - and most of the significant language > c

Re: [Puppet Users] Trouble using type Stdlib::Windowspath

2017-01-09 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi Henrik, > A non-existent type will in some versions of puppet be taken as being a > resource type. > > One thing you can check is that your module (where you are using Stdlib::XXX > types have declared a dependency on Stdlib in its metadata. If it does not > have this it will not find type

Re: [Puppet Users] Trouble using type Stdlib::Windowspath

2017-01-09 Thread Henrik Lindberg
On 09/01/17 13:02, Tiago Delboni wrote: Hi! I'm having trouble using type Stdlib::Windowspath, from module puppetlabs/stdlib, as a parameter type in a manifest. Is this "custom type" really available? In https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/blob/master/types/windowspath.pp it is defin

[Puppet Users] Trouble using type Stdlib::Windowspath

2017-01-09 Thread Tiago Delboni
Hi! I'm having trouble using type Stdlib::Windowspath, from module puppetlabs/stdlib, as a parameter type in a manifest. Is this "custom type" really available? In https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/blob/master/types/windowspath.pp it is defined using the "type" word, which, acco

[Puppet Users] Design Patterns - Profiles & Shared Information

2017-01-09 Thread Stefan Schlesinger
Hi, I wonder what approaches you are currently using for sharing common information among multiple Puppet profiles: To come up with some examples which will need to be maintained for multiple profiles: - HTTP proxy settings - IP ACLs for whitelists (eg. IP of monitoring systems, trusted hosts) -

Re: [Puppet Users] Could not find resource, but it's there.

2017-01-09 Thread Henrik Lindberg
On 09/01/17 02:52, chris smith wrote: Hi, This seems like a pretty simple thing but I can't figure out why this is throwing a warning. I'm using puppet 4.8.1 installed from the puppetlabs-pc1 on scientific linux 6. # puppet -V 4.8.1 # rpm -q puppet-agent puppet-agent-1.8.2-1.el6.x86_64 My fi