[sdnog] Puppet Configuration

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 23 Sep 2015, at 20:34, Jaco Engelbrecht wrote:

> Hi Isra,
>
> Before we start to troubleshoot this - are you setting up a brand new 
> Puppet Master?
>
> If so, I would strongly recommend that you start with Puppet 4: 
> https://puppetlabs.com/blog/say-hello-open-source-puppet-4
>
> With Puppet 4, you get a simple, streamlined experience with an 
> all-in-one (AIO) package that includes Puppet 4, latest Hiera and 
> MCollective, Ruby, OpenSSL and their gem dependencies. This is most 
> definitely going to give you less headaches later down the road, 
> especially with the upgrade from Puppet 3 to Puppet 4.
>
> You're then also using the latest version of their software, the 
> version 3 (which is what you likely installed) will be unsupported 
> soon. A lot of things has changed, and the new AIO package is really 
> great to get started with.
>
> Happy to guide you (and others) through the process of getting started 
> with Puppet 4. It's a great time to start with Puppet, the Puppet 
> Forge (where modules to configure web, mail, DNS servers) are very 
> mature these days - they've put in a lot of work to make this great!
>
> Let me know, and I can type up some notes to get you started. Also, 
> any reason you're using CentOS 6 and not yet CentOS 7?
>
> Jaco


hi jaco,

as a newcomer to puppet (heh!)  this is very interesting to me.

my traditional approach is to “go with the old and stable”;  which 
is why, when i look at a recent deployment that i have to work in, i see 
that we’re using:
me at puppet:~# apt --installed list | grep puppet
puppet-common/trusty-updates,now 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1 all 
[installed,automatic]
puppetmaster/trusty-updates,now 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1 all [installed]
puppetmaster-common/trusty-updates,now 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1 all 
[installed,automatic]
(which, i believe is the default, at the time of writing, on ubuntu 
14.4LTS)

i’ve since read part of the installation and migration guides on 
puppet4, and i’m pleased to see that it’s not quite “bleeding 
edge” new.  so that spells well.  i’ve tagged this onto my to-do 
list for the medium term.  if you have some gotcha’s that you can 
share for a future potential upgrade (ie. don’t do this;  it’ll 
break that…) that will be very useful indeed.

best,
—n.