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What should NOT be managed by puppet?

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http://serverfault.com – 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. Basic IP connectivity, at least on the network used to reach the puppetmaster, has to be working. Using puppet to automatically create dns zone files is tempting, but DNS reverse pointers ought to be already in place before starting up the thing or certificates are going to (HowTos)

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Submitted by xskl on 08/06/2012 – Made popular on 08/06/2012

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