Tip of the Week 69 - example42 Puppet Tutorial - Part 3

Anonymous, 2 days, 5 hours | Source: Example 42

example42 Puppet Tutorial - Part 3 This is the third post of a series of articles covering an introduction to Puppet. In the first post I started with Puppet agent installation and how to use Puppet and Facter to analyse your system. Next topics have been the introduction to the Puppet programming language (DSL), how to setup the central Puppet master and how to connect Puppet agents to the Puppet master. The second posting covered Puppet modules, code logic and variables and how to add external facts to your systems. Besides this I introduced parameters and the concept of separating code ...

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Tip of the Week 68 - example42 Puppet Tutorial - Part 2

Anonymous, 1 week, 2 days | Source: Example 42

example42 Puppet Tutorial - Part 2 This is the second post of a series of articles covering an introduction to Puppet. Take your time digging through this posting as this a very dense summary with lots of information. In the first post I started with Puppet agent installation and how to use Puppet and Facter to analyze your system. Next topics have been the introduction to the Puppet programming language (DSL), how to setup the central Puppet master and how to connect Puppet agents to the Puppet master. This posting will cover Puppet code location and structure like modules, code logic ...

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Introducing the Puppet Resource API

Davin Hanlon, 2 weeks | Source: Puppet Labs

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Tip of the Week 67 - example42 Puppet Tutorial - Part 1

Anonymous, 2 weeks, 2 days | Source: Example 42

example42 Puppet Tutorial - Part 1 This is the first post of a series of articles covering an introduction to Puppet. I start with Puppet agent installation and how to use Puppet and Facter to analyse a system. Next topics are the introduction to the Puppet programming language (DSL), how to setup a central Puppet master and how to connect Puppet agents to a Puppet master. The second part will cover Puppet modules, code logic and variables and how to add external facts to your systems. Besides this I will introduce parameters and the concept of separating code and data by ...

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Accelerate Puppet Enterprise installation with AWS CloudFormation templates

Greg Hardy, 2 weeks, 4 days | Source: Puppet Labs

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Welcome to the new Puppet Forge

Nicole Anderson, 3 weeks | Source: Puppet Labs

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Adding rich object data types to Puppet

R.I. Pienaar, 3 weeks | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

Extending Puppet using types, providers, facts and functions are well known and widely done. Something new is how to add entire new data types to the Puppet DSL to create entirely new language behaviours.

I’ve done a bunch of this recently with the Choria Playbooks and some other fun experiments, today I’ll walk through building a small network wide spec system using the Puppet DSL.

Overview

A quick look at what we want to achieve here, I want to be able to do Choria RPC requests and assert their outcomes, I want to write tests using the Puppet ...

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Tip of the Week 66 - Example42 Puppet modules status update

Anonymous, 3 weeks, 2 days | Source: Example 42

A quick update on the status of example42’s Puppet works. Modules 2008 We released our first set of Puppet modules ten years ago, in 2008, at Puppet 0.24 times, looking at them now I can’t prevent from smiling slighly embarassed: they had some unique features for the times (decommissining support, multi OS support by design, first attempt to separate common code from local implementation) but look definitively naive now. Modules 2010 Two years later, in 2010, when current Puppet version was 2.6, we released our Next Gen set of modules, a completely rewritten army of modules ...

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Common gotchas setting up Puppet Enterprise trials & evaluations: part 2

Mike Smith, 3 weeks, 5 days | Source: Puppet Labs

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10 years of Puppet… and counting

Raphaël Pinson, 2 months | Source: Camptocamp Blog

In 2015, Puppet celebrated its 10th anniversary. At Camptocamp, Puppet has totally revolutionized our way of doing systems administration!

Cet article 10 years of Puppet… and counting est apparu en premier sur Camptocamp.

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Free Puppet Webinar on March 13, 2018

camptocamp, 2 months | Source: Camptocamp Blog

Join our Puppet webinar and delve into fully tested dockerized Puppet Infrastructure.

Cet article Free Puppet Webinar on March 13, 2018 est apparu en premier sur Camptocamp.

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Self-documenting Puppet modules with puppet-strings

rnelson0, 4 months, 2 weeks | Source: RNELSON0

Documentation is hard. Anyone who has been in IT long enough will have tales of chasing their tails because of incorrect or outdated docs, or even missing docs. Documentation really benefits from automation and ease of creation. For Puppet modules, there exists a tool called puppet-strings that can help with this. There are probably other […]

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Automatic renewal of Puppet Certificates

Raphaël Pinson, 5 months | Source: Camptocamp Blog

Everyone who has been using Puppet with a self-signed CA for more than 5 years knows that dreaded time: the time when the CA must be renewed.

Cet article Automatic renewal of Puppet Certificates est apparu en premier sur Camptocamp.

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Open Source Summit, Paris

camptocamp, 5 months | Source: Camptocamp Blog

A major event of the Free and Open Source industry in Europe, the Paris Open Source Summit is the international echo chamber for the multiple contributions of Free and Open Source to current and future digital revolutions.

Cet article Open Source Summit, Paris est apparu en premier sur Camptocamp.

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Managing multiple puppet modules with modulesync

Dean Wilson (dwilson@unixdaemon.net), 5 months, 1 week | Source: Dean Wilson@UnixDaemon

With the exception of children, puppies and medical compliance frameworks managing one of something is normally much easier than managing a lot of them. If you have a lot of puppet modules, and you’ll eventually always have a lot of puppet modules, you’ll get bitten by this and find yourself spending as much time managing supporting functionality as the puppet code itself.

Luckily you’re not the first person to have a horde of puppet modules that share a lot of common scaffolding. The fine people at Vox Pupuli had the same issue and maintain an excellent tool ...

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Upgrading Puppet Enterprise from 2016.4 to 2017.3

rnelson0, 5 months, 2 weeks | Source: RNELSON0

Over the past year, there have been some pretty big improvements to Puppet. I am still running PE 2016.4.2 and the current version is 2017.3.2, so there’s lot of changes in there. Most of the changes are backwards-compatible, so an upgrade from last November’s version is not quite as bad as it sounds, and I […]

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Copyleft is Dead. Long live Copyleft!

purpleidea, 6 months, 1 week | Source: The Technical Blog of James

As you may have noticed, we recently re-licensed mgmt from the AGPL (Affero General Public License) to the regular GPL. This is a post explaining the decision and which hopefully includes some insights at the intersection of technology and legal issues.

Disclaimer:

I am not a lawyer, and these are not necessarily the opinions of my employer. I think I’m knowledgeable in this area, but I’m happy to be corrected in the comments. I’m friends with a number of lawyers, and they like to include disclaimer sections, so I’ll include this so that I blend in ...

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Retrospec - the Task Generator

Anonymous, 6 months, 2 weeks | Source: Logical thoughts exposed

Puppet introduced Bolt at Puppetconf 2017 this year and so far I like what I see. Simple, easy to use remote task execution without a huge requirement of any one language. Best of all puppet modules can start adding one off bolt tasks to help with the administrative duties of various applications. Bolt makes it really easy to get started but adds some required scaffolding to create a properly defined task, namely the metadata file.

One of the use cases of retrospec puppet is to build out this scaffolding for you with the many generators it has. So starting with ...

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The Choria Emulator

R.I. Pienaar, 6 months, 2 weeks | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

In my previous posts I discussed what goes into load testing a Choria network, what connections are made, subscriptions are made etc.

From this it’s obvious the things we should be able to emulate are:

• Connections to NATS
• Subscriptions – which implies number of agents and sub collectives
• Message payload sizes

To make it realistically affordable to emulate many more machines that I have I made an emulator that can start numbers of Choria daemons on a single node.

I’ve been slowly rewriting MCollective daemon side in Go which means I already had all the networking and connectors available ...

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Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide (third edition)

John Arundel, 6 months, 3 weeks | Source: Bitfield Consulting

Order your copy now on Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk)

A new book on Puppet for the cloud-native era

A new edition of the bestselling Puppet Beginner’s Guide is now available, covering all the latest features of Puppet 5. Learn Puppet from scratch, from installation to managing complex infrastructures, including chapters on managing Amazon AWS cloud resources and Docker containers with Puppet. Every code example is available right now online in a special GitHub repo just for this book. There is also a complete, working Puppet infrastructure for you to download, adapt, and use on your own servers.

Praise ...

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