, 05/02/2012 | Source: Andreas Haerter Blog
Puppet is a1) powerful open source tool to automate the configuration of and software management on Unix-like2) operating systems. This posting is a distillate of the resources I collected during my Puppet learning phase. I hope it helps to get an overview about what Puppet can do for you and how to use it (plus providing existing Puppet users some new ideas or tips).
Selected slides and presentations (overview, use-cases, experts, tips)
Nan Liu, 01/02/2012 | Source: Puppet Labs
Management of network devices is one of the exciting new features in Puppet Enterprise 2.0 and Puppet 2.7. In the initial release, support is limited to Cisco devices, but because Puppet is extensible via modules, we are able to build upon the existing framework and add support for F5 BIG-IP. Like most network appliances, installation of third party software is prohibited, which eliminates the ability to run an agent. Instead, Puppet takes advantage of F5 iControl API to interact and manage the device. F5
[ Read more... ]vStone, 31/01/2012 | Source: vStone Blog
Recently (about 5 minutes ago), I was writing a custom puppet-function to offload some puppet magic. In short: I’m writing a wrapper around create_resources so I can keep syntax for the end-users of my module crispy clean. This means I need the create_resources function to be available in my custom function. This can be done by using Puppet::Parser::Functions.autoloader.loadall as suggested on the puppetlabs custom modules guide. Unfortunately, when using #loadall, all functions will be loaded.
Why
[ Read more... ]Hunter Haugen, 30/01/2012 | Source: Puppet Labs
In a previous blog post, we introduced use cases for separating configuration data from Puppet code. This post (part one of a two part series) will go in-depth with installing, configuring, and using Hiera, but let’s first look at WHY we would need Hiera.
One of the benefits of Hiera is its ability to take an existing module and adapt it to a hierarchical-based lookup system. Typically, one of the first modules that people adapt to Puppet code is the SSH module.
[ Read more... ]vStone, 30/01/2012 | Source: vStone Blog
I’ve used puppet quite intensively since a couple of months (about 4 I would guess). Before that, I’ve played with it, change something here and there. But quite not as much as now. I’ve used several puppet modules from wherever google leads me, roamed github, inherited a few from colleagues and created several from scratch. While doing so, I saw a lot of stuff I disliked and learned a lot on how we I can (ab)use puppet to do what I want it to do. Over those last months, I
[ Read more... ]R.I. Pienaar, 28/01/2012 | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net
Earlier this week I wrote about Oldskool which is a Gem extendable search tool. Today I want to show how to create a plugin for it to query some custom source.
We’ll build a plugin that shows Puppet Type references, you can see how it will look in the image, click for a larger version.
The end result is that I can just search for “type exec” to get the correct documentation for my Puppet install. I’ll go quite quick through all the various bits here, the complete working plugin is
[ Read more... ]Gary Larizza, 27/01/2012 | Source: Puppet Labs
You’ve bought Pro Puppet, downloaded a couple of modules from the Puppet Forge (and have written some of your own too), and you’re on your way to implementing your Puppet environment when it hits you: something feels bulky with the way you’ve designed your Puppet code. Your modules may not be portable between environments (development, testing, production) without significant tweaks, each of your node declarations may require a number of variables in order for the code to work, or
[ Read more... ]Jason, 26/01/2012 | Source: Puppet Labs
I am very pleased to announce that R.I. Pienaar, founder and lead developer of the widely used Marionette Collective (MCollective) orchestration tools, has joined Puppet Labs as a Software Architect. R.I.’s message-based orchestration tools have become some of the most widely used tools in systems management, and have literally changed the way that people handle ad-hoc command and control, orchestration, and parallel job management. Having R.I. join the Puppet Labs team is a significant milestone for us,
[ Read more... ]Adrien, 25/01/2012 | Source: Puppet Labs
One of the issues that crops up when working with Puppet is ensuring that your manifests do what you expect. Errors are bound to happen. A missed brace can make a manifest not compile, or forgetting to include a module or set a variable may mean that running Puppet on the host fails to enforce the expected state. All in all, it would help to have some tools to make sure we’re writing valid code, that it does what it expects, and that if it doesn’t we catch it as soon as possible.
At the
[ Read more... ]James Turnbull, 23/01/2012 | Source: Puppet Labs
The first Puppet Triage-a-thon was a huge success. Thank you so much to everyone who attended and contributed! Some of our favorite stats from the event:
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