puppet

Many users (myself included) would like to specify source => http://... for file resources in Puppet manifests. It turns out that the existing infrastructure in the Puppet core makes this quite easy to implement. File serving in Puppet Among the most basic functions of any configuration management system is the central maintenance and programmatic distribution of various configuration files. Data files such as binary applications or tarballs are frequently managed as well. [Read More]

Puppet got in trouble when users manually created resources that had no description. Unnamed resources are difficult for Puppet to handle. To allow successful purging, it is necessary to generate internal names for such resources. Background In this post, I want to describe a problem that cropped up in a feature that I had implemented for one of the late 3.x releases. At the time, it was the most requested item, with dozens of votes on Redmine (of course it was old), and later on Jira. [Read More]

Sudden breakage of puppet apply for some users Things started harmlessly, with yet another mailing list post. A user was reporting strange behavior of puppet apply. The resource from the applied manifest was being ignored, apparently. Misunderstandings about Puppet behaving in an unexpected fashion are commonplace. But after exchanging some debugging instructions and further issues, it soon became clear that something was going seriously wrong. Will Partain then notified me about PUP-3258 off-list. [Read More]