[Puppet Users] puppet cloud provisioner used in module

2014-08-26 Thread John Bencic
from what i see the puppet cloud provisioner module seems to be a command line tool does anyone know if there is any way (apart from an exec call) to call the module from another module what i want to do is - define a list of nodes (somewhere) - check my vm environment if these nodes alrea

[Puppet Users] Puppet Explorer 1.2.0 released

2014-08-26 Thread Erik Dalén
A new release of Puppet Explorer is out. It includes a new look which you can check out at the new public demo site: http://demo.puppetexplorer.io/ Other highlights in this release is: * Abort unfinished background requests when filter changes * Show number of found nodes in node list * Much i

Re: [Puppet Users] Monkey patch puppet type

2014-08-26 Thread Felix Frank
On 08/26/2014 08:38 AM, Mickaël Canévet wrote: > > Well, actually no. I'd really like to be able to provide a monkey patch > that will apply on top of puppetlabs's module so that I don't have to > maintain a fork (which is what I do right now) while my patch is not > accepted upstream. > As declar

Re: [Puppet Users] Monkey patch puppet type

2014-08-26 Thread Mickaël Canévet
Le mardi 26 août 2014 15:48:04 UTC+2, Felix.Frank a écrit : > > On 08/26/2014 08:38 AM, Mickaël Canévet wrote: > > > > Well, actually no. I'd really like to be able to provide a monkey patch > > that will apply on top of puppetlabs's module so that I don't have to > > maintain a fork (which is

Re: [Puppet Users] "Server configurations require Augeas >= 1.0.0" on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS puppetmaster

2014-08-26 Thread Trey Duskin
Morgan, Thanks for the reply. So, is augeas a prerequisite for Puppet? If so, why isn't it installed as a dependency? I have tried using the camptocamp/puppet-augeas module to install augeas for me, but it seems that I would have to comment out the tomcat stuff in my node definition and put

Re: [Puppet Users] puppet cloud provisioner used in module

2014-08-26 Thread Nan Liu
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:55 AM, John Bencic wrote: > from what i see the puppet cloud provisioner module seems to be a command > line tool > > does anyone know if there is any way (apart from an exec call) to call the > module from another module > > > what i want to do is > - define a list of

[Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Facter 2.2.0

2014-08-26 Thread Matt W
Hey we got this installed on some new systems yesterday and we found that in Ubuntu 12 the `lsbmajdistrelease` fact has changed suddenly from `12` to `12.04`! This actually broke quite a few of our manifests, and is fundamentally broken I believe. The major dist release version is '12'. Has any

[Puppet Users] simple MCO output filtering?

2014-08-26 Thread lamour
I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to make use of the information that mco has access to. To this end, I'm attempting to find queries that answer "obvious" questions like "which hosts use module X" or "which hosts are running apache". Things like that. So far, I've figured out how to do

[Puppet Users] Announce: nightly repos available

2014-08-26 Thread Eric Sorenson
After the Puppet 3.5.0 release problems, we had a retrospective and tried to figure out some process improvements which would have surfaced the problems earlier. Despite a lengthy 4-week release candidate cycle, that release still had a fatal flaw that nobody had caught until it went into final

[Puppet Users] Puppet logging agent/master

2014-08-26 Thread Mike Reed
Hello all, I've recently been looking into various methods for configuring meaningful logging from my puppet 3.6 master/agent nodes. I've typically gone the route of grep'ing through syslog on both master/agents and I'd like something a little more robust and user friendly for other who may no

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet logging agent/master

2014-08-26 Thread Ramin K
On 8/26/14 10:34 AM, Mike Reed wrote: Hello all, I've recently been looking into various methods for configuring meaningful logging from my puppet 3.6 master/agent nodes. I've typically gone the route of grep'ing through syslog on both master/agents and I'd like something a little more robust a

Re: [Puppet Users] "Server configurations require Augeas >= 1.0.0" on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS puppetmaster

2014-08-26 Thread Morgan Haskel
Trey, Augeas is an optional dependency for puppet, but is a requirement for the puppetlabs-tomcat module. You could also use chaining arrows[1] to specify the dependency, something like: class { 'augeas': } -> class { 'tomcat': } --- 1: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_r

[Puppet Users] Testing with rspec-puppet and ripienaar/module_data

2014-08-26 Thread Matthew Haughton
Hi all, I have a module I'm trying to convert from params.pp to ripienaar/module_data. I've got to the point where I can run Puppet with: puppet apply --debug --noop --hiera_config spec/fixtures/hiera/hiera.yaml --modulepath spec/fixtures/modules -e 'include ...' and can see from the hier

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet 'node data' when using common node_names?

2014-08-26 Thread jcbollinger
On Monday, August 25, 2014 11:13:40 AM UTC-5, Matt W wrote: > > Comments inline > > Matt Wise > Sr. Systems Architect > Nextdoor.com > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:55 AM, jcbollinger > wrote: > >> >> >> On Saturday, August 23, 2014 12:46:59 PM UTC-5, Matt W wrote: >>> >>> Will, >>> Thanks for

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet 'node data' when using common node_names?

2014-08-26 Thread Erik Dalén
On 26 August 2014 20:22, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Monday, August 25, 2014 11:13:40 AM UTC-5, Matt W wrote: > >> Comments inline >> >> Matt Wise >> Sr. Systems Architect >> Nextdoor.com >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:55 AM, jcbollinger >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, August 23, 2014

[Puppet Users] Challenge: who am i and what do i do

2014-08-26 Thread Alex Demitri
Hi guys - i am fairly new to puppet and i am trying to figure out ways to implement it in my organization to make good use of it. One thing we thought would be useful to better our deployment process, is to add a mechanism that would have a vanilla server getting installed on a VM, boot up, che

[Puppet Users] Re: Challenge: who am i and what do i do

2014-08-26 Thread Andy Taylor
I'd recommend checking out Razor: https://github.com/puppetlabs/razor-server/wiki Although as far as I'm aware it's not production ready yet. On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 20:41:01 UTC+1, Alex Demitri wrote: > > Hi guys - i am fairly new to puppet and i am trying to figure out ways to > implement

[Puppet Users] My Puppet Dashboard Can't Start After Machine Reboot

2014-08-26 Thread Stella
Hi guys, Please help! I have configured Puppet server and Dashboard. Everything works fine. However, after I reboot my Linux machine, my Dashboard can't be started. Error: Starting Puppet Dashboard: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such

[Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Facter 2.2.0

2014-08-26 Thread Will Hopper
Hi, Mark! Thanks for raising your concerns on this. This change was actually intentional, as we have been reporting the Ubuntu major release incorrectly for some time in Facter. In most platforms, splitting on the first ‘.’ of an X.Y.Z release would be a sane way of determining the major rel

[Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Facter 2.2.0

2014-08-26 Thread Will Hopper
Whoops, apologies, Matt. Not sure where "Mark" came from :). On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 1:42:56 PM UTC-7, Will Hopper wrote: > > Hi, Mark! > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivin

Re: [Puppet Users] My Puppet Dashboard Can't Start After Machine Reboot

2014-08-26 Thread Felix Frank
On 08/26/2014 10:15 PM, Stella wrote: > Starting Puppet Dashboard: > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in > `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- rack/handler/-e > (MissingSourceFile) I suspect that some configuration or Ruby code got damaged some time after the p

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet 'node data' when using common node_names?

2014-08-26 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Erik Dalén wrote: > > > > On 26 August 2014 20:22, jcbollinger wrote: > >> >> >> On Monday, August 25, 2014 11:13:40 AM UTC-5, Matt W wrote: >> >>> Comments inline >>> >>> Matt Wise >>> Sr. Systems Architect >>> Nextdoor.com >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6

[Puppet Users] Good PupptMaster/Passenger Guide w OSX 10 .9

2014-08-26 Thread keith . staley
HI guys; after speaking with puppet labs and gettting the pricing for my site, I thought it maybe cheaper ot go open spurce. so I am asking for a good guide you guys have used the following: http://nullr0ute.com/2014/01/puppetmaster-on-apache-with-passenger-in-5-mins/ http://www.6tech.org/2013

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet logging agent/master

2014-08-26 Thread Wil Cooley
kOn Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Mike Reed wrote: > I suppose I have two questions: > > 1. Is there a simple way to push messages to a file other than > /var/log/syslog on an Ubuntu machine? > I think the rsyslog Ramin mentioned is a good way to filter. > 2. Is there a preferred way in the

[Puppet Users] Trying to install the Dashboard on Ubuntu 14

2014-08-26 Thread Jason Oakley
Hi. I've been following the instructions on the puppetlabs website but can't get the Dashboard going. I can connect to the main port 8140 page and get: *The environment must be purely alphanumeric, not ''* So, it's installed and working. However, I cannot connect to the port 443 dashboard as it

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet logging agent/master

2014-08-26 Thread Mike Reed
Hey Will and Ramin, Thank you both for taking the time to explain your configurations. I suspect I'll roll with the central logging option via rsyslog/syslog and go from there. Splunk sounds like a great tool to use for parsing as well as PuppetDB for more advanced visualization features. T

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Challenge: who am i and what do i do

2014-08-26 Thread Sebastian Otaegui
Can you pass that information to the instances using cloud-init / user-data? On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Andy Taylor wrote: > I'd recommend checking out Razor: > > https://github.com/puppetlabs/razor-server/wiki > > Although as far as I'm aware it's not production ready yet. > > On Tuesday

Re: [Puppet Users] Challenge: who am i and what do i do

2014-08-26 Thread Atom Powers
DHCP + CMDB + ENC will get you there. (Foreman is an easy CMDB for Puppet.) DHCP answers "Where am I?" and "Who am I?" CMDB + ENC answers "What am I supposed to do?" On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Alex Demitri wrote: > Hi guys - i am fairly new to puppet and i am trying to figure out ways t

Re: [Puppet Users] Challenge: who am i and what do i do

2014-08-26 Thread Ramin K
On 8/26/2014 12:41 PM, Alex Demitri wrote: Hi guys - i am fairly new to puppet and i am trying to figure out ways to implement it in my organization to make good use of it. One thing we thought would be useful to better our deployment process, is to add a mechanism that would have a vanilla serve

Re: [Puppet Users] Trying to install the Dashboard on Ubuntu 14

2014-08-26 Thread Ramin K
On 8/26/2014 5:41 PM, Jason Oakley wrote: Do I have to install the Dashboard from tarball now? Which version? Puppet Dashboard will only work with Ruby 1.8.7 and 14.03 ships with 1.9.3. Puppetlabs EOL'ed the Dashboard over near two years ago. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-an

Re: [Puppet Users] Good PupptMaster/Passenger Guide w OSX 10 .9

2014-08-26 Thread Ramin K
On 8/26/2014 4:23 PM, keith.sta...@gmail.com wrote: HI guys; after speaking with puppet labs and gettting the pricing for my site, I thought it maybe cheaper to go open source. so I am asking for a good guide you guys have used the following: http://nullr0ute.com/2014/01/puppetmaster-on-apach

[Puppet Users] Re: Announce: Facter 2.2.0

2014-08-26 Thread Daniele Sluijters
Hey, I agree with the spirit of the fix but the fact that it isn't mentioned anywhere in the release notes is a bit annoying. I personally also consider this a backwards incompatible release, you're changing old behaviour. Albeit for the better, but people depended on that behaviour and no prio