Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Learner

2012-04-17 Thread Luke Bigum
Yes, your Puppet Master can be an Agent, it just talks to itself. Most people manage Puppet Agent and Master configuration with Puppet itself - get it to manage it's own config and restart itself when it changes. This means you only need a bunch of text files - your modules and manifests - to r

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Learner

2012-04-17 Thread Kukki
Thanks guys that was really very helpful and did clear lots of concepts in my mind for puppet. Absolutely brilliant that means that with collective I can even launch the instances on EC2 aswel and can even run the required services on demand within the boxs. One thing I also like to know say puppe

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Learner

2012-04-17 Thread Luke Bigum
Overdue, Walter is right in that you will need to look to another tool, such as MCollective. Puppet is not the best at orchestrating operations across multiple servers. It can reacting to things on one machine, like an Apache servers' config file updating, but there's nothing in core Puppet t

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Learner

2012-04-16 Thread Walter Heck
If you are not running your agents in daemon mode, you can have a look at mcollective. It allows you to define a set of servers that you want to do a puppet run on. cheers, Walter On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 05:31, OverDue Ocean wrote: > Hi Guys, Let me Introduce myself as  self learner and very ne

[Puppet Users] Puppet Learner

2012-04-16 Thread OverDue Ocean
Hi Guys, Let me Introduce myself as self learner and very new to puppet and I am sure that now on I am staying here in this group for long and keep asking questions, I am sorry if my message annoys you or if its a bit childish please forgive me but i believes that if you want to learn you should