Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread Ohad Levy
Hi Michael, Happy to see you around puppet :) Thanks, I did see it before, I still chose to implement foreman, a few of the reasons were: 1. I need to support non RH servers (e.g. Debian and Solaris where func and friends don't play ball) 2. I wanted to have one single interface regardless on th

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-19 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Ohad Levy wrote: > Yeah, that's true, but in my opinion cobbler support in Puppet is lacking, > that was one of the reason I've started Foreman. > > cheers, > Ohad You may also want to look at Symbolic, which integrates Puppet, Func, and Cobbler all together in a

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-18 Thread Ohad Levy
Yeah, that's true, but in my opinion cobbler support in Puppet is lacking, that was one of the reason I've started Foreman. cheers, Ohad On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Derek Yarnell wrote: > Hi, > > Just a note that Cobbler which is a kickstart/preeseed server has some > puppet integration alt

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-18 Thread Derek Yarnell
Hi, Just a note that Cobbler which is a kickstart/preeseed server has some puppet integration although we don't use it because we are a ldap shop. Thanks, Derek On Monday, January 18, 2010, Ohad Levy wrote: > Hi, > > One of the main reasons that foreman also do kickstart/preseed/jumpstart is >

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-17 Thread Ohad Levy
Hi, One of the main reasons that foreman also do kickstart/preseed/jumpstart is because I wanted to be able to rebuild every machine. since there are things that puppet was not designed to do (e.g. partition tables) - I wanted Foreman to fill in the gaps. and therefor you end up with a partition

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-17 Thread Trevor Vaughan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would stick with kickstart for your partitioning if you can. If you cannot however (and there are good reasons), I would use a set kickstart with much of your disk free and then post-create/grow your partitions using the remaining disk space. In te

Re: [Puppet Users] Partitioning disk with Puppet

2010-01-16 Thread Scott Smith
On 1/16/10 9:22 AM, SyRenity wrote: Hi. Is it possible / practical to partition disks with Puppet, on a new server deployment? And if yes, is there any good module existing for the task? Or it's better stick to kickstart doing the partition job (like in Ohad theForeman), and only then bootstrap