(Using|interested in) puppet?
Hey guys! Who of you is already using or interested in using puppet? We're preparing a meeting (soon!) with puppet as topic and besides presenting our work, we're wondering what you know / interested in. And we would be happy to see speakers from other groups, to present (in a short manner, around 5-10 minutes) their puppet related work. Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich
Hi there! At Hilti, we're using puppet (v0.24). The environment where we use it is still fairly small, only a couple of hosts which we used as a testbed for a larger deployment. The real rollout will probably start early 2011 when each system we migrate to RHEL6 will be puppetized from day one. Myself, I'd be interested in the following topics: - puppet with clustered clients (especially if the clusters do have shared filesystems on which some configs should be deployed) - performance / sizing for medium sized environments (200+ clients) - upgrade experience puppet v0.24 -> v0.25 - usage experience of dashboard - user (well, admin...) acceptance of puppet for config management - monitoring of puppet Topics on which I could prepare some info if somebody's interested: - handling of sensitive files (which contain passwords, private keys etc.) when using a git repo for all the manifests - building your own puppet packages (incl. dependencies) vs. depending on publicly available packages - an approach to monitor puppet clients with big brother Cheers, Kurt On 16 August 2010 16:49, Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
Hey guys!
Who of you is already using or interested in using puppet?
We're preparing a meeting (soon!) with puppet as topic and besides presenting our work, we're wondering what you know / interested in.
And we would be happy to see speakers from other groups, to present (in a short manner, around 5-10 minutes) their puppet related work.
Cheers,
Nico
Hey Kurt, Kurt Keller [Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:20:14PM +0200]:
At Hilti, we're using puppet (v0.24). The environment where we use it is still fairly small, only a couple of hosts which we used as a testbed for a larger deployment. The real rollout will probably start early 2011 when each system we migrate to RHEL6 will be puppetized from day one.
iisginf is also having a look at rhel6, as well as ID (guessed), maybe you can gain some experiences together on a /sans/-meeting even?
Myself, I'd be interested in the following topics:
- puppet with clustered clients (especially if the clusters do have shared filesystems on which some configs should be deployed) - performance / sizing for medium sized environments (200+ clients) - upgrade experience puppet v0.24 -> v0.25 - usage experience of dashboard - user (well, admin...) acceptance of puppet for config management - monitoring of puppet
Sound like great topics to discuss about, some of them we can even provide some hints to.
Topics on which I could prepare some info if somebody's interested:
- handling of sensitive files (which contain passwords, private keys etc.) when using a git repo for all the manifests - building your own puppet packages (incl. dependencies) vs. depending on publicly available packages - an approach to monitor puppet clients with big brother
Sounds very good, I would be happy if you prepare a short speech about those topics. Many greetings from Uster, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich
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