[Puppet Users] Upgrading Puppet from 2.7 to 4

2016-05-06 Thread christg76
Hi, I'm fairly new to Puppet and have been given the project of upgrading an existing Puppet 2.7 site (Puppetmaster with Apache/Passenger, and MySQL for exported resources, with hundreds of clients), possibly to Puppet 4. Just wanted to ask around if anybody has got experience with such an upgra

[Puppet Users] Re: Upgrading Puppet from 2.7 to 4

2016-05-09 Thread christg76
Thanks to everyone for the comments! I think I first need to do some preliminary testing in order to assess the quality of the code and to see what the real challenges are, and to ultimately decide on a strategy, ie upgrade vs transition/migration. Ramin K: OS of the Master is Debian Wheezy. Hav

[Puppet Users] Migration to PuppetDB and Apache/Passenger setup

2016-05-20 Thread christg76
Hi, I'm in the process of planning a Puppet Upgrade. The current setup uses the ActiveRecord functionality/gem to connect to a MySQL DB for stored configs, exported resources. I'm reading in the Puppet 4 Release Notes that support for ActiveRecord is removed. Is there any standard way to export

[Puppet Users] 3.8.5 Master with 3.7.2 Agents

2016-05-27 Thread christg76
Hi, background here is that I want to use both Master and agents from the Debian repo. The Master runs on Jessie (3.8.5 from the backports), and some agents still on wheezy (3.7.2 from the backports). This is not a new install, but rather an intermediate upgrade to the last Puppet 3 version, bef

Re: [Puppet Users] 3.8.5 Master with 3.7.2 Agents

2016-05-30 Thread christg76
Thats what i thought.. many thanks for the info Rob! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this disc