[Puppet Users] Setting puppet up to use a dns alias as a servername

2018-05-02 Thread buoyant_puppy
Can I configure puppet to use a DNS name that would work on two different hosts? For example, I have host1 and host2.example.com. I'd like agents to connect to "puppet.example.com" which will point to one of these. I wamt to be sure agents can connect to either without certificate errors. How

[Puppet Users] Re: Setting puppet up to use a dns alias as a servername

2018-05-02 Thread Gavin Williams
'dns_alt_names' is the config you're looking for... https://puppet.com/docs/puppetserver/5.1/scaling_puppet_server.html#creating-and-configuring-compile-masters provides more info on running multiple Puppet servers. HTH Gav On Wednesday, 2 May 2018 11:02:16 UTC+1, buoyant_puppy wrote: > > Ca

Re: [Puppet Users] hiera command line - search with structured facts (key.subkey)

2018-05-02 Thread Louis Coilliot
It works fine for me, thanks ! Sorry, I missed the switch to the new command and the doc here : https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/hiera_automatic.html#ariaid-title4 I was looking for 'hiera cli' Regards, Louis Coilliot 2018-04-27 19:13 GMT+02:00 Henrik Lindberg : > On 27/04/18 18:12, Louis C

[Puppet Users] Re: Setting puppet up to use a dns alias as a servername

2018-05-02 Thread jcbollinger
On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 6:25:37 AM UTC-5, Gavin Williams wrote: > > 'dns_alt_names' is the config you're looking for... > > > https://puppet.com/docs/puppetserver/5.1/scaling_puppet_server.html#creating-and-configuring-compile-masters > > provides more info on running multiple Puppet serv

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Platform 6 pre-release builds available

2018-05-02 Thread al
Hei Eric, good news, especially the extra modularization and the agent side functions, from my point of view. Are expected in Puppet 6 any remarkable backwards incompatibilities or deprecations? Best Al On Monday, April 23, 2018 at 11:44:32 PM UTC+2, Eric Sorenson wrote: > > Hi all, we've star

[Puppet Users] Puppet Tutorial on example42's Puppet Tip of the Week Blog

2018-05-02 Thread al
Dear all, I hope someone here can find useful the 4 posts long *Puppet Tutorial* we just finished to publish on example42's blog, where we regularly publish a Puppet Tip of The Week. Find the tutorial, and a lot more Puppet related content, at: https://www.example42.com/blog/ Sorry for the "uns

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetfile with 'puppet apply'?

2018-05-02 Thread al
You can definitively use a Puppetfile with puppet apply. As you already found is a matter of running r10k puppetfile install -v from your control-repo directory (where Puppetfile is placed). You need to resolve all the dependencies by yourself in Puppetfile (r10k does not do that for you), so lis

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet Basics Blog Post

2018-05-02 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi Joaquin, many thanks for also thinking on newbies. Some notes from my side: - Don't use puppet module generate, use PDK to create new modules, classes and defines. - Stop using ERB templates, switch to EPP Best, Martin > On 1. May 2018, at 23:47, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > > I wrote this

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet Platform 6 pre-release builds available

2018-05-02 Thread Eric Sorenson
Hi Al - The main thing is that the certificate authority and network stack are going to consolidate onto the puppetserver implementations, rather than having a split between ruby/webrick and clojure/puppetserver. So if anyone is still using 'puppet master' standalone or apache-based servers, now