Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-09 Thread Dmitry V'yal
Evan Hisey wrote: Regardless of if puppet is intended to manage multiple similar hosts, it is still useful when you have a smaller number of unique hosts. If every host is completely unique then you get one some benefits of puppet: * you have a single place to review your configuration * you c

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-09 Thread Daniel Pittman
Dmitry V'yal writes: > Evan Hisey wrote: >>> Regardless of if puppet is intended to manage multiple similar hosts, it is >>> still useful when you have a smaller number of unique hosts. >>> >>> If every host is completely unique then you get one some benefits of puppet: >>> * you have a single pl

[Puppet Users] Author system management books- Packt Publishing.

2010-04-09 Thread Kshipra Singh
Hi Puppet Users, I am writing to you for Packt Publishing, the publishers of computer related books. We are planning to extend our catalogue of books on Open Source System and Network Administration softwares & are currently inviting experts to write for us. So, if you love Puppet and fancy writi

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-09 Thread Peter Meier
That's great! And what to do with various passwords, private keys and so on? Should I put them in manifest? That is a hard call, and there is probably no single answer. For what it is worth, we decided that this was an acceptable security risk in some places (database passwords containing uncla

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet commands giving nothing but a stack trace

2010-04-09 Thread Rob McBroom
On Apr 8, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Ken wrote: > I don't suppose its your stack size? Whats the output of 'ulimit -a' > on your box (as the user you were trying to run those command as of > course). Mine is 8192 kb. Bingo. Someone had set it to 128 for all users (without my knowledge). I changed it to o

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet commands giving nothing but a stack trace

2010-04-09 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:56:39AM -0400, Rob McBroom wrote: > > Bingo. Someone had set it to 128 for all users (without my knowledge). > I changed it to only affect the relevant users and Puppet fires right > up. Thanks. You're running Puppet and somebody changed the ulimit config on the box wit

Re: [Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: Puppet 0.25.5 - Release Candidate 1 available!

2010-04-09 Thread Gustavo Soares
Hi, I would like confirm if the bug #3182 will be solved in the 0.25.5 final release (I am asking this because I didn't saw it in the changelog of the RC1). Thanks in advance, Gus On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:22 AM, James Turnbull wrote: > Welcome back to the Puppet release cycle - brought to you b

[Puppet Users] Custom facts for a puppetmasterless environment

2010-04-09 Thread Pete Emerson
I see the instructions for creating custom facter recipes here: http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Adding_Facts and in this thread, James Turnbull suggests that Facter might some day support other languages besides ruby: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thre

Re: [Puppet Users] is puppet the right tool for me?

2010-04-09 Thread Steven VanDevender
Daniel Pittman writes: > Dmitry V'yal writes: > > Evan Hisey wrote: > >> You forgot a biggy bonus of puppet, no matter what size you support. I > >> have several small ( as in 1-3) groups of very different machines, > >> and with puppet I can rebuild them very quickly on when they need to >

[Puppet Users] Re: Custom facts for a puppetmasterless environment

2010-04-09 Thread Pete Emerson
On Apr 9, 9:04 am, Pete Emerson wrote: > I see the instructions for creating custom facter recipes here: > > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Adding_Facts > > and in this thread, James Turnbull suggests that Facter might some day > support other languages besides ruby: > > ht

[Puppet Users] broken image links on puppet-dashboard tour documentation

2010-04-09 Thread Gustavo Soares
Hi! I don't know if here is the right place to say this, but the puppet-dashboard tour webpage ( http://www.puppetlabs.com/blog/a-tour-of-puppet-dashboard-0-1-0/) seems to have some broken image links. Thanks in advance, Gus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [Puppet Users] broken image links on puppet-dashboard tour documentation

2010-04-09 Thread Rein Henrichs
This probably happened in the course of the move. Thanks for letting us know! Rein Henrichs http://reductivelabs.com On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Gustavo Soares wrote: > Hi! > > I don't know if here is the right place to say this, but the > puppet-dashboard > tour webpage ( > http://www.pup

[Puppet Users] Yum provider using version-release as version?

2010-04-09 Thread Tony G.
Hi, I'm using yum as our package provider and having an issue. Puppet is complaining of the version, this is the code I'm trying to implement: $snmp_version = "5.3.2.2" package { "net-snmp": ensure => "${snmp_version}"; } On the client I got: debug: //Node[client.example.com]/snmp::base/Package[

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Custom facts for a puppetmasterless environment

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas A. McGonagle
I also like to embed facts with bash logic using bash startup files in /etc/profile.d/puppet.sh The puppet labs FAQ has a write up on it. Can I access environmental variables with Facter? Not directly no but Facter has a special types of facts that can be set from environment variables. Any envir

[Puppet Users] Re: Yum provider using version-release as version?

2010-04-09 Thread Ken
FYI - this still behaves like this in 0.25.4 [r...@obelisk ~]# puppetd -t --environment=prod info: Retrieving plugin info: Caching catalog for obelisk.usr.bob.sh info: Applying configuration version '1270859745' err: //Node[obelisk.usr.bob.sh]/Package[git]/ensure: change from 1.6.6.1-1.fc12 to 1.6