Re: [Puppet Users] migrating to new puppet servers

2011-08-31 Thread Naresh V
On 31 August 2011 19:04, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: > On 26/08/11 03:12, Nan Liu wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Roy Nielsen  wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> We need to migrate ~3000 machines to a new puppet server. >>> >>> What is the recommended method of doing this, considering the cer

Re: [Puppet Users] migrating to new puppet servers

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Gazeley
On 26/08/11 03:12, Nan Liu wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Roy Nielsen wrote: Hello, We need to migrate ~3000 machines to a new puppet server. What is the recommended method of doing this, considering the cert issues? Not much, just make sure you generate a cert for the new puppet m

Re: [Puppet Users] migrating to new puppet servers

2011-08-25 Thread Nan Liu
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Roy Nielsen wrote: > Hello, > > We need to migrate ~3000 machines to a new puppet server. > > What is the recommended method of doing this, considering the cert issues? Not much, just make sure you generate a cert for the new puppet master using the existing CA ce

Re: [Puppet Users] migrating to new puppet servers

2011-08-25 Thread Matthew Nicholson
Did this recently, basically: Create a new module to do the work, that: Upgrades the client Drops in a new config Removes old cert from client Bounces the service Did about 98% of our ~1600 systems with this, worked well, moved things as they checked in instead of one big push. On Aug 25, 2011 4