[Puppet Users] Managing puppet code

2012-08-16 Thread Benjamin Priestman
I'm piloting a puppet deployment that may grow to a fair size (~100 nodes, at least two distinct sites, dev/stage/prod environments). I'm struggling a bit with settling on a strategy and processes for managing and deploying puppet code. As seems to be generally accepted best practice and as req

[Puppet Users] Installing from alternat repositories with puppet module

2012-08-16 Thread Benjamin Priestman
Hi, >From the puppet module tool documentation, I note that it is possible to >specify an alternate repository to install modules from >(http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_installing.html#installing-from-another-module-repository). Other than some unresolved newsgroup quest

Re: [Puppet Users] Installing from alternat repositories with puppet module

2012-08-16 Thread Benjamin Priestman
mething less than a fully functional forge? Does a simple directory structure, which mimcs the layout of the forge's archives, behind a web server do the trick? Ben On Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:12:38 UTC+1, Nan Liu wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Benjamin Priestman > >

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing puppet code

2012-08-16 Thread Benjamin Priestman
ly > certain you could accomplish this with librarian-puppet. > > It's on github. > > Your Puppetfile would be in your main repo which could have > dev/stage/prod branches. > > Jason > > On 08/16/2012 07:22 AM, Benjamin Priestman wrote: > > I'm

Re: [Puppet Users] Bug when using array in file resource?

2012-11-04 Thread Benjamin Priestman
I had trouble with this one, too. The documentation also made me think I could do something like this, but I think this is a lack of clarity in the documntation, not a code bug. $title or $name (they seem to get used interchangeably) always seem to refer to the $name or $title of the class or

[Puppet Users] Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid parameter lib in puppetlabs-apache module

2012-12-18 Thread Benjamin Priestman
Hi, I'm trying to move back to using the standard puppetlabs-apache module, after having been using a heavily customised version and am running into the following error: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid parameter lib at /etc/puppet/unstable/bran

[Puppet Users] Re: How to manage puppet modules? git submodules? hg subrepositories? own solution?

2012-12-20 Thread Benjamin Priestman
I've tried using https://github.com/azimux/externals (referenced in Version Control with Git ) which kind of works, but is a bit buggy and I've yet to come up with an easily understood workflow. On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 17:59:48 UTC, Malte J

[Puppet Users] windows mount points

2014-09-01 Thread Benjamin Priestman
Hi, On windows hosts, I've taken to putting all my app data in c:\srv, mimicing the /srv location on Linux. Depending on the host, this may be a location on the system drive, or it is sometimes an additional disk mounted at that location. In the latter case, `puppet resource file ` shows this a

[Puppet Users] can't find node definition puppet 3.7.1

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Priestman
I've always used import, not include to get my node definitions into site.pp. the new way of doing it, I believe, is to use a manifest directory. See https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_import.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups