Hey everyone,
I'm experiencing an issue resulting from the way RubyGems works when
dealing with multiple gem versions.
When managing a gem through the Package provider, setting ensure to a
version lower than a currently installed version will result in Puppet
installing the older version, however
The approach I've used is similar - automatically sign new CSRs so
that new nodes can be added without human interaction.
In order to then apply a configuration to the node, the hostnames for
my machines all conform to a pattern, which I then match against a
regular expression in the node manifest
You can indeed use Exported resources.
See the first example in this documentation:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/exported_resources.html
The example shows how to have every host export its SSH public key,
and then collect every host’s key and install it in the
ssh_known_hosts file (which is
One more thing - Puppet will fail to set the password unless the
libshadow gem is present, as this is required to work with shadow
passwords.
The failures due to this being missing weren't obvious if I remember
back - you only get a warning that the user provider isn't able to
manage the passwords
