Puppet is a great config management system

 
05 December 2006

The topic of kickstarting and enabling puppet came up on et-mgmt-tools. In addition to what I’ve said previously on the subject, a few more tips: 1. Installing puppet in the...

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Puppet stores configuration files for all its clients on a central fileserver, which by default is the same as the puppetmaster. If a manifest needs to refer to a file...

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Sometimes it is necessary in a puppet manifest to run a command with exec every time puppet changes a file. The subscribe metaparameter is ideal for this purpose, since it...

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08 May 2006

A configuration management tool like [Puppet](http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet) ensures that the local configuration of a machine agrees with its configuration stored on a central server, and makes it possible to install packages,...

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I’ve written up a detailed example of using Puppet to deploy and configure a database backed web application. Apart from discussing the ins and outs of using Puppet, the writeup...

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A very simple problem in managing Fedora machines with Puppet is that of controlling which yum repositories the machines get their updates from. Puppet does not (yet) have a way...

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