Re: [Puppet Users] Different versions for server and agents

2012-03-16 Thread Gary Larizza
The general rule of thumb is that your master must be at a version , like Peter said, greater-than-or-equal-to your clients. As far as backward compatibility, we strive to maintain a single major release for backwards compatibility (i.e. a 2.7.x master would be backwards-compatible with 2.6.x clie

Re: [Puppet Users] Different versions for server and agents

2012-03-16 Thread Peter Bukowinski
Markus, yes. As long as the master's version is equal to or greater than the agents, it will work. I can't speak for future master releases, though. -- Peter (from phone) On Mar 16, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > On 13.3.2012 00:22, vagn scott wrote: >> On 03/12/2012 10:16 AM, Peter Bu

Re: [Puppet Users] Different versions for server and agents

2012-03-16 Thread Markus Falb
On 13.3.2012 00:22, vagn scott wrote: > On 03/12/2012 10:16 AM, Peter Bukowinski wrote: >> >> Your master's version should always be equal to or greater than the >> latest client version you're using. You can count on a newer master >> working with older clients, but don't count on newer clients wo

Re: [Puppet Users] Different versions for server and agents

2012-03-12 Thread vagn scott
On 03/12/2012 10:16 AM, Peter Bukowinski wrote: Your master's version should always be equal to or greater than the latest client version you're using. You can count on a newer master working with older clients, but don't count on newer clients working with older masters. So, no problems

Re: [Puppet Users] Different versions for server and agents

2012-03-12 Thread Julien C.
Well, that's more than I expected. I can easily ensure that my server is up-to-date, and then use whatever package I find for the agents... Thanks. Le lundi 12 mars 2012 15:16:32 UTC+1, pmbuko a écrit : > > On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Julien C. wrote: > > Hi, > > Due to severe heterogeneity am

Re: [Puppet Users] Different versions for server and agents

2012-03-12 Thread Peter Bukowinski
On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Julien C. wrote: > Hi, > > Due to severe heterogeneity among my servers (OS and version), I started my > puppet infrastructure by deploying agents by hand (from the tarball). That > way, I'm sure that I have the same version everywhere. > > Having found up-to-date