Questions tagged [puppet]
Puppet is a configuration management tool (Unix & Windows) with its own Domain Specific Language.
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Installing open-vm-tools in Ubuntu via Puppet; what's the lesser evil?
In an ideal world, configuring puppet to install the open-vm-tools should be as simple as this:
class vm-tools {
package { 'open-vm-tools':
ensure => installed
}
package { '...
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How do I provide dpkg configuration parameters to aptitude or apt-get?
When installing gitolite I find that:
# aptitude install gitolite
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gitolite
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded.
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What is the best way in Puppet to add a piece of text to the /etc/hosts file?
I would also like to keep the ability to manually edit hosts-file, at least the first 10 lines.
#Public IP's - eth0
192.168.1.103 front-01
192.168.1.106 front-02
#Private IP's - eth1
192.169.40....
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How can I have puppet deploy ssh keys for virtual users?
I am trying to get puppet to assign authorized ssh keys for virtual users but I keep getting the following error:
err: Could not retrieve catalog: Could not parse for environment production: Syntax ...
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Puppet's automatically generated certificates failing
I am running a default configuration of Puppet on Debian Squeeze 6.0.4.
The server's FQDN is master.example.com. The client's FQDN is client.example.com.
I am able to contact the puppet master and ...
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Installing package from PPA using Puppet
I'm trying to automatically provision VMs with docker pre-installed.
My default init.pp looks like:
class { 'apt':
always_apt_update => true,
}
package { [
#'build-essential',
#'vim',...
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Vagrant OS X host nfs share permissions error - Failed to set owner to '1000'
I am a Vagrant and Puppet newbie, I have created a Base Box with Debian Squeeze plus standalone Puppet, using the instructions here to install Puppet with the Puppetlabs packages.
The box itself ...
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Puppet configuration using augeas fails if combined with notify
I'm having a problem with the following Puppet manifest, which is meant
to enable the passwdqc pam module on a RHEL-6 system (this is using
Puppet 0.25.5 and augeas 0.7.2):
augeas { 'authconfig':
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Puppet class inheritance confusion
I've read the documentation on scope, but I'm still having trouble working this out. I've got two environments that are very similar - so I've got:
modules/django-env/manifests/init.pp
class django-...
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Puppet&Hiera: $variable is not an hash or array when accessing it
I was using Puppet 3.2.2 and Hiera 1.2.1.
And I wrote a puppet module and the content of init.pp was:
class install(
$common_instanceconfig = hiera_hash('common_instanceconfig'),
$...
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Can you unapply a puppet manifest action?
I've applied a puppet manifest, which in turn included a puppet module that added several entities to /opt/...
Is there a way to undo the effects of an applied puppet module ?
i.e. "puppet module ...
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Easily recreate a server's "state" [closed]
I want the ability to setup new servers for dev/testing/prod very easily. The reasons for being able to setup a new dev VM is obvious, but for prod my concern is adding a new production server/...
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Scripted install vs cloning
What are the downside of cloning vs scripted installation (using Kick-start / Puppet)?
I read a lot of pro-scripted install opinion, where cloning is considered as unreliable method due to ever ...
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Puppet agent using 100% CPU, on a single node for an hour
Puppet seems to peg the CPU when I try to do a recursive deploy of a directory into a folder that already has a substantial number of files.
The the provider used by the user resource on my systems ...
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Can I use wildcards is puppet package ensure to cover multiple releaseversion
Using puppet I want to update packages on my (CentOS 5 & 6 servers) in a controlled way. Therefore I don't want to use ensure=>latest but rather ensure=>3.0.1-1.
Example:
class puppet::...
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puppet: stop service before overwriting file
I got the following simplified configuration:
file {
'/etc/foo.conf':
ensure => file,
content => epp('my_module/etc/foo.conf.epp'),
;
}
service {
'foo':
ensure => ...
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Overriding Parameters in Previously Declared Puppet Resource
I'm attempting to rebuild nwaller's sssd puppet module to be entirely LDAP based and to be a little cleaner. In it we have a resource defined for each authentication domain of the form
define sssd::...
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migrating puppet clients to a new puppet master (old puppet master server gone, only using backup)
My puppet master server had a hardware failure, and I have restored to another box. However this box has different hardware and hostname.
If I restore the existing /etc/puppet directory to the new ...
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How can I tell Puppet "If I declare class X, apply its resources before class Y"?
In my Puppet configuration I want to say "If I declare class X, apply its resources before class Y." In other words, I want to declare an ordering, but remain silent about whether or not to apply ...
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How to access the environment name in Puppetfile
I'm using R10K with Puppet. The Puppetfile is basically DSL:
Because the Puppetfile format is actually implemented using a Ruby DSL
any valid Ruby expression can be used.
Ref: https://github....
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Differences between local 'puppet apply' and 'puppet agent' to a puppetmaster
We're in the process of migrating away from a monolithic puppet repository that contains all of the config. This one repo contains things that really shouldn't be on every node ever, so a puppetmaster-...
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puppet cert mismatch in ec2
I'm setting up a puppetmaster (2.7.6) in ec2 via gems (on rhel6) and I'm running into problems with the cert names and getting the master able to talk to itself.
my puppet.conf looks like this:
[...
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How to exclude Puppet modules for a few nodes?
I have 80 nodes, 78 need to have a specific module, except for 2.
[root@puppetmaster puppet]# cat hiera.yaml
:backends:
- yaml
:hierarchy:
- environment/%{::environment}/%{::hostname}
- ...
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How to define multiple /etc/hosts entries with Puppet ENC?
I'm writing an External Node Classifier for my Puppet infrastructure, and I have the need to manipulate the /etc/hosts file on each node. The following (due to the duplicate key) is invalid YAML:
---
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Making logrotate remove old logs after reducing 'rotate' value
I'm trying to reduce the number of log files kept for Apache by reducing 'rotate 52' in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 to 'rotate 8'. With weekly rotation this should keep 2 months of logs instead of a full ...
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How to ensure that the «if» statement gets parsed _before_ a given resource/class?
Sometimes there are complicated interactions between packages. To avoid class interface with countless, seemingly unrelated parameters, I though about using tags, defined(<resource>) function ...
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Puppet - Any way to copy predefined custom configuration files for software on clients from the puppet master (host)?
I have been having a lot of fun coding with what puppet I have had experience with so far, and so far it looks like it can do most of what I need it to do.
One thing I am not finding in the ...
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How do I evaluate a class not on every puppet run?
I would like to have a method that only evaluates a particular class once a day at a specific time. Right now I am running my puppet agent from the cron, but I would like to change it to either run ...
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How to monitor package versions across multiple (Linux) servers
We use Puppet for installing the base level OS and packages, but our own application packages are deployed manually by individual developers.
I'm looking for a web dashboard to view/monitor the ...
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puppet - using ensure with package 'version' and 'held'
Overview:
Just started using Puppet and used the following array with 'ensure' so a specific version of Apache is installed (rather than the latest) and its 'held'(which means it won't be upgraded on ...
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Puppet, setting dependencies
I am starting to setup puppet. I want to set up a dependencies that a mail transfer agent must be installed before that class tries to install or start anything. With puppet, the standard method ...
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Puppet apache module causing 'Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid parameter identifier'
I am receiving the following error when trying to use the latest puppetlabs-apache module from github (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache):
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote ...
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How to detect NVIDIA GPU with Puppet
I have some tasks I only want to run on machines that have NVIDIA GPUs. Is there a good way with Puppet to be able to determine if a specific agent has an NVIDIA GPU or not? I'm able to do it in bash ...
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Facter - custom fact, returns empty data set when invoked by Puppet agent
According to this puppet labs article, I can create custom facts from shell scripts.
I have created a bash script that returns a single fact, it is packaged in a modules facts.d directory. The module ...
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Avoid declaration of if regex statements while using Exported Resources in Puppet
Avoid to add a host manually
class::define { [
'host1.domain',
'host2.domain'
]:
attribute => 'hello',
attribute2 => 'world'
}
class::define { [
'host3.domaintwo',
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How to merge puppet array variables
Given the following puppet manifest, how can I merge / concatenate the two arrays such that the command will execute with both a=b and b=c ?
Cron{
environment => ["a=b"]
}
class a{
cron{'test'...
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Puppet language configuration file editing
I am trying to create a puppet recipe for a log server and client using syslog-ng. I know I can have custom configuration files using template erb files and replace certain variables in the erb files. ...
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Create users via Puppet by reading a mySQL table
For a particular service, users are added/removed via web to a mySQL table. I need to replicate those users on several ubuntu servers (as regular shell users), preferably through Puppet. Currently I ...
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Why does my namespace and class name conflict?
I have a puppet module installed that is called ntp.
A node do I define by
node testip { include myconfig::ntpp }
and in /etc/puppet/modules/myconfig/manifests/init.pp have I
class myconfig::ntpp {...
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Puppet apache vhost automatic deployment
Hi there puppeters :),
I hope you can help me with a situation. Namely, I will use puppet to deploy many (I mean really many) nodes with Apache installed. The problem I have is that for now the only ...
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Puppet - how can I copy a file to several user folders?
Well I was using the info on this:
Puppet - Any way to copy predefined custom configuration files for software on clients from the puppet master (host)?
But I need some more elaborated, because I ...
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Puppet parameter lookup
I would like to know if it is possible to lookup the value of another Puppet resource, something like the following example:
define foo( $username ) {
$home = User[$username].home
....
}
The ...
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Can I use Puppet to find out what nodes do not have VMware tools installed?
I have 100 servers with RHEL that I would like to run VMware tools. I have written a Puppet-module that can install VMware tools, just using package {}:
package { 'vmware-tools-esx-nox':
ensure =&...
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Using hiera to access facts of another node
What we're trying to do is generate firewall rules (puppetlabs/firewall) for iptables. Our nodes are grouped like so conceptually:
-- site1
---- shared1
------ specific1
------ specific2
---- shared2
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How can I install packages from the RHEL6's Optional Channel via Kickstart?
I typically install puppet via kickstart. Apparently, puppet now requires a package (libselinux-ruby) that is included in the Red Hat's Optional Channel.
I was under the impression I could only use ...
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Puppet: variable overriding best practices
I'm wondering what are best practices for overriding variables in puppet. I'd like to have all my nodes (which located in different places, some of them are qa, some live) with same classes. Now I ...
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puppet could not evaluate: could not retrieve information from environment
puppet can do exec on node, but cannot transfer file from module.
Ubuntu 14.04 server
Puppet 3.8.4
Already tried:
making file world readable
disabling FW
creating facter.d in module directory
On ...
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Appending a line to a file if it doesn't exist using Puppet
I've got a defined resource type to append a line to a file if it doesn't exist, as per below:
define appendLineToFile($file, $line, $user) {
exec { "echo \"\\n$line\" >> \"$file\"":
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Puppet : resource already defined error
I am trying to create multiple directories and then copy files to each of the directories . For that I have created the following resource
$dirs=myapp
$appdirs = [ "/data/tomcat/$dirs/conf", "/data/...
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How to instantiate multiple instances of the same resource using Hiera
Using Hiera, is it possible to instantiate two classes with different properties?
I know I can do add to my node declaration:
user{'francois':
uid => 1000,
# ...
}
user{'julien':
uid => ...