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Puppet Labs, provider of open source systems management solutions, announced the release of Puppet Enterprise, the first commercially supported version of Puppet.

I'm learning my way through configuration management in general and using puppet to implement it in particular, and I'm wondering what aspects of a system, if any, should not be managed with puppet?

As an example we usually take for granted that hostnames are already set up before lending the system to puppet's management.

Cannot use puppet on mac osx 10.8, i can find it in /usr/bin/lib but display that when i launch it :

/usr/bin/puppet:3:in `require': no such file to load -- puppet/util/command_line (LoadError) from /usr/bin/puppet:3

Any idea ?

Edit : I want to use puppet in Vagrant VM to do provisioning is it the good way ?

I am trying to setup puppet's dashboard to be monitor the status of my servers. With the below shown configurations, my clients (or nodes) only show up as Unreported and says Has not reported in "Last report".

However the node can communicate with the server and pull changes as it's supposed to, but nothing appears in the dash.

I am learning puppet and using this tool install puppet clients on nodes.

puppet node install --login=root --keyfile=~/.ssh/id_rsa --install-script puppet-enterprise --installer-payload ~/puppet/puppet-enterprise-2.7.0-ubuntu-12.04-amd64.tar.gz --installer-answers ~/puppet/installer.answers --puppetagent-certname puppet.node01.example.com 192.168.1.100

Everything seems to work ok.

I'm running puppet 2.7.9 on a Debian Squeeze system.

Puppet on system admin 3 years 43 weeks ago

Hi folks,

Have folks tried Puppet before for system administration?

Puppet is system administration — Automated http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/AboutPuppet

On our puppet box ( under the puppet/modules folder ) , I have added a module for installing a package. I then added the classes needed for the resources into the init.pp ( and other derived class files ) into the manifests folder.

Vagrant / puppet workflow 45 weeks 5 days ago

I'm new to puppet and vagrant, but I'm developing my own Puppet manifests intended to set up a vagrant box. That is, the puppet manifest is in my Vagrant directory on the host machine, and vagrant is invoking puppet -- there is no puppet server.

The thing is, my workflow is:

while(not working as desired) { vagrant destroy amend manifest vagrant up }

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