puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for February 2015

12	[Puppet Users] Announce: Puppet Language Style Guide 2.0

The Modules team and I are excited to finally announce the newest version of the Puppet Language Style Guide. We've reworked the guide to reflect the new features and capabilities of Puppet 3.7, and ...

Lauren Rother
Feb 2, 2015 at 6:21 pm
Feb 6, 2015 at 12:40 pm

9	[Puppet Users] beaker

Hi, I'm having excruciating problems with just getting beaker to run on Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.10 and even CentOS6. I don't normally ask for help because frankly I don't need it. I use rbenv & native ...

Marc Lucke
Feb 6, 2015 at 12:33 am
Feb 21, 2015 at 10:43 pm

9	[Puppet Users] representing undef in hiera?

How would I represent an undef in hiera such that a class parameter will be populated as undef? Like this, but in hiera: #class testing::cwood1 ( $param1 = undef ) { class testing::cwood1 ( $param1 ) ...

Christopher Wood
Feb 9, 2015 at 4:37 pm
Feb 13, 2015 at 7:43 pm

9	[Puppet Users] Is there a better way to limit module actions based on facts?

We have a mixed environment. I wrote a module that would only do stuff on Red Hat family boxes. Under the class definition I put: if $::osfamily == 'RedHat' { and did all the package and file ...

Leam hall
Feb 10, 2015 at 9:18 pm
Feb 12, 2015 at 1:30 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Problems with puppet agent on EL7 systems

Hi, I'm working on enabling our environment to support EL7 Linux systems. We mostly run OracleLinux, but also have CentOS and RHEL. I've got a CentOS 6 PuppetMaster running Foreman 1.7.2, Puppet ...

Smalderma
Feb 25, 2015 at 9:43 pm
Mar 3, 2015 at 8:18 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Quick question about types/providers

Using the example of the file provider that is bundled with puppet here is a sniglet of code that I've zoomed in on: def mode if stat = resource.stat return (stat.mode & 007777).to_s(8) else return ...

Peter Berghold
Feb 27, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Mar 2, 2015 at 4:26 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Dependencies issue for puppet agent installation

Hi Puppet Team, I am facing Dependencies issue for puppet agent installation. Please help me to resolved this issue. I am running PE 3.7 on CentOS 7 and clients are CentOS 7 and RHEL 7. I ran this ...

Subodh Kant
Feb 17, 2015 at 6:52 am
Feb 18, 2015 at 7:16 am

6	[Puppet Users] delete line in file with substring xyz

Dear all I would like to use the stdlib Modul with file_line to delete a line that matches *xyz*. But the resource file_line {'delete line': ensure = absent, path = '/etc/file', line = '*xyz*', } or ...

Andreas Dvorak
Feb 25, 2015 at 12:58 pm
Feb 27, 2015 at 11:11 am

6	[Puppet Users] puppetdb dies at random

We have a puppet-master box with the following installed: root@puppet-master:/var/log/puppetdb# dpkg -l | grep puppet ii facter 2.4.1-1puppetlabs1 all Ruby module for collecting simple facts about a ...

James Green
Feb 16, 2015 at 11:23 am
Feb 17, 2015 at 9:23 am

6	[Puppet Users] Allowing duplicate namevars in custom types

Hi all! I'm working on a custom type that applies xpaths to files. I expect the interface to look something like: xpath { "some update": xpath = "/some/xpath", command = "replace", value = ...

Jwilkicki
Feb 11, 2015 at 5:09 pm
Feb 13, 2015 at 5:15 pm

5	[Puppet Users] External Facts in <MODULEPATH>/<MODULE>/facts.d/

Puppet 3.7.3 Facter 2.3.0 running on RHEL 6 Reference: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/2.2/custom_facts.html#fact-locations I put a simple fact_file.txt in one of my modules to try this new ...

Dan White
Feb 9, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Mar 6, 2015 at 6:51 am

5	[Puppet Users] Update package (latest) only if installed in Debian

Hello There, I'm trying to write a module to update certain vulnerable packages in Debian Systems. My idea is to update them only and only if they are *installed*. Is there any exec command or any ...

Ximena Cardinali
Feb 24, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Feb 27, 2015 at 11:09 am

5	[Puppet Users] fingerprint changes after puppet cert --sign

Hi, I have an issue where my cert finger prints changes after I sign it on the master. I removed all certs from master and deleted /var/lib/puppet/ssl stopped and started puppet master service. Later ...

Tejas Gadaria
Feb 20, 2015 at 5:57 am
Feb 23, 2015 at 3:41 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Does the "Learning VM" image actually work?

Folks, I tried downloading the Learning VM image for VMware, and while there does seem to be a .vmdk file inside the zip archive, along with various other parts I would expect to find, so far as I ...

Brad Knowles
Feb 9, 2015 at 11:03 pm
Feb 11, 2015 at 12:37 am

5	[Puppet Users] Fact is incorrect when show all facts, correct when on commandline

So I have a custom fact which works fine from the commandline: facter last_interface (it returns the ip address of the last of a sorted list of interface names) If I just run facter without ...

John D'Ausilio
Feb 9, 2015 at 5:16 am
Feb 9, 2015 at 9:50 pm

5	[Puppet Users] puppet cron help

Hey all, I'm attempting to setup a cron job via the cron resource in puppet. This is what I'm trying to express via puppet: */30 * * * * /usr/bin/facter -y /etc/mcollective/facts.yaml This is what ...

Tim Dunphy
Feb 2, 2015 at 10:55 pm
Feb 4, 2015 at 3:40 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Copying a hash with changes

I want to copy a hash to a variable but change some settings along the way. For example: I have $haproxy::params::global_options (which is a hash) and I want to create a copy with some changes. I ...

Tom Limoncelli
Feb 28, 2015 at 6:28 pm
Mar 5, 2015 at 3:46 am

4	[Puppet Users] Access to one element from a yaml

Hi group, Im trying to get one element from a yaml structure which come from Foreman, the yaml is like this: node: host1: ip: xxx.xxx.xxx host2: ip: xxx.xxx.xxx Those parameter are used to in a ...

Fran Rodríguez
Feb 25, 2015 at 1:52 pm
Mar 3, 2015 at 9:36 am

4	[Puppet Users] multiple Puppet masters with Foreman -- 'sproke

Using crude ascii art, here is what I have set up so far in my lab.. [Foreman/Puppet Grand Master] <-- foreman-proxy here ^ V [Puppet Remote Master] <-- foreman-proxy running here. ^ V [Simulated ...

Peter Berghold
Feb 24, 2015 at 1:45 pm
Feb 24, 2015 at 5:43 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Virtual Resource Visibility

OK.. so I'm having a major brain fart here... I have a class thusly: class scripts::myscript { @file{'my neat script': path= "/path/to/the/script", source= "puppet:///modules/scripts/myscript.pl" } ...

Peter Berghold
Feb 9, 2015 at 4:33 pm
Feb 13, 2015 at 3:49 pm

4	[Puppet Users] hiera - multiple yaml backends

I'm wondering if anyone has this unique use case. We're going to experiment by giving our ops team their own hieradata repository, and keep our internal repository separate. (If you're curious, we'll ...

Brett Swift
Feb 9, 2015 at 8:12 pm
Feb 9, 2015 at 10:35 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Apparent unexpectedly synthesized dependency

I am getting a dependency loop when trying to apply my puppet manifests, however the loop makes little sense to me as one the dependencies seems to come from no where. The cycle is this ...

James Olin Oden
Feb 4, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Feb 6, 2015 at 3:15 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Announce: Native Facter (cfacter) 0.3.0 is available!

Native Facter (cfacter) 0.3.0 is a features-and-fixes release in the Native Facter pre-1.0 series. Included in this release is support for building Native Facter on Windows and Solaris. The EC2 and ...

Peter Huene
Feb 3, 2015 at 1:21 am
Feb 5, 2015 at 5:44 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Bootstrap puppet client

Hi ~ I use chef knife bootstrap a new chef client. It use ssh method to login my client and run script to do any thing. # sudo knife bootstrap $CLIENT_IP -x $USER_NAME -P $PASSWORD -d $ERB_FILE Is ...

Aries
Feb 3, 2015 at 10:02 am
Feb 4, 2015 at 7:49 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Inter-node dependency

Hello, I'm pondering what is the best way to approach this problem( without MCollective). I have a serverA than will run a DB backup copy it over to serverB, then serverB do restore then notify ...

Lupindeterd
Feb 26, 2015 at 2:59 pm
Mar 6, 2015 at 5:53 pm

3	[Puppet Users] first custom type... in the weeds already

I've created a very simple type as follows: Puppet::Type.newtype(:bannerfile) do @doc = "Create a text file with banner text" ensurable newproperty(:name)do isnamevar end newproperty(:bannertext)do ...

Peter Berghold
Feb 25, 2015 at 9:25 pm
Feb 27, 2015 at 8:53 pm

3	[Puppet Users] forcing a variable to be lower case?

I have a situation where there is an uppercase letter in a client's host name. When Puppet creates the certificate for the host the resultant name for the is in all lower case as I'd expect. The ...

Peter Berghold
Feb 25, 2015 at 7:26 pm
Feb 25, 2015 at 8:56 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Continuous Availability

I am trying to setup CA environment or puppet. How do i approach for the solution and what are the options available? Thank you in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to ...

Rajesh Kunwar
Feb 19, 2015 at 7:41 am
Feb 19, 2015 at 5:38 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Design help: django deployment

Hi folks, The developers at my place are designing a new set of webapps, which will be written in Python/Django. This is new to us (our old stuff is nasty Perl) and I've been asked to look at how to ...

Jonathan Gazeley
Feb 10, 2015 at 10:13 am
Feb 19, 2015 at 10:37 am

3	[Puppet Users] Two questions about custom facts

First: I notice in the documentation you can have facts in ${module_path}/lib and in ${module_path}/facts.d. What is the difference between the two? Second: A module that I am writing as I type this ...

Peter Berghold
Feb 17, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Feb 18, 2015 at 4:10 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Cant remove depreciated warning message

Hey All, I've started to upgrade a few puppet clients to the latest version and have hit the issue which everyone had a while ago around this error "Warning: The package type's allow_virtual ...

David LeVene
Feb 9, 2015 at 4:56 am
Feb 16, 2015 at 4:15 am

3	[Puppet Users] Puppet module

Trying to install the module vcsrepo with puppet, but really unsure how it could be done. The commandline to install it is: puppet module install puppetlabs-vcsrepo Tried to install it this way, but ...

Bilal Ahmad
Feb 14, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Feb 15, 2015 at 7:22 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Is trusting the agents a bad thing?

I'm new to puppet and have been exploring different ways of configuring manifests, ranging from huge single manifests, through per-node and am currently looking at the role/profile patterns. One ...

UK_beginner
Feb 12, 2015 at 10:23 pm
Feb 13, 2015 at 3:02 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Requiring a subclass?

Hello! Is there a way to set the dependency for a resource that is a subclass? I have an accounts module, and "within" that is accounts::account which contains declarations to create user, group, ...

Guy Matz
Feb 6, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Feb 9, 2015 at 2:54 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Augeas fstab - removing all opt nodes then rebuilding

Hello All, I have a requirement to mount /var with specific options if mysql-server is installed and the filesystem is ext4. So far I have this: if defined(Package['mysql55-server']) { notice "found ...

Anthony Clark
Feb 4, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Feb 4, 2015 at 4:16 pm

2	[Puppet Users] hiera + module init.pp interaction

Hello everyone, Is it possible to get a hiera response to variable being called from a module's init.pp file? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet ...

Justin parker
Feb 25, 2015 at 9:09 pm
Feb 25, 2015 at 10:22 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Bug #15326] (Accepted) Scheduled_task does not accept domain user accounts

Hi, When i add the user attribute to Scheduled_task, the scheduled task is not created, but if i comment out the user attribute the scheduled task is created running as system. This doesn't seem to ...

Helen Paterson
Feb 24, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Feb 24, 2015 at 3:23 pm

2	[Puppet Users] install hiera-puppet on centOS 6.6

hey all, I've just tried installing the hiera-puppet package onto CentOS 6.6, and got this result: Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/extlookup2hiera from install of ...

Tim Dunphy
Feb 21, 2015 at 6:28 pm
Feb 21, 2015 at 9:18 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Solaris package installation unattended does not work

Dear all I am trying to install a Solaris package but it does work. Puppet uses -n to run unattended, but interaction is required. package{'CSWpkgutil': ensure = installed, source = ...

Andreas Dvorak
Feb 19, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Feb 20, 2015 at 8:10 am

2	[Puppet Users] asking a question a different way

is it possible for one puppet master to be managed by another? Ascii art to illustrate what I mean: Puppet Grand Master / | \ Master1 master2 master3 clients:1 clients:2 clients:3 My goal is to have ...

Peter Berghold
Feb 19, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Feb 19, 2015 at 5:42 pm

2	[Puppet Users] My puppet code is not idempotent (Windows package provider)

Hi everyone, I'm using the following manifest to deploy a driver package (and its certificate) to about 150 Windows Server 2008 R2 nodes. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1cbaa90e1d0497ebaeb3 The ...

Cko
Feb 19, 2015 at 9:29 am
Feb 19, 2015 at 10:32 am

2	[Puppet Users] using heredoc in an erb template with hiera

Hello, I'm using hiera with puppet 3.7. What I need to do is pass in a formatted string to puppet to be used inside an erb template. What I'd really like is to use heredoc, but it doesn't seem like ...

Mark Rosedale
Feb 18, 2015 at 6:08 pm
Feb 19, 2015 at 8:31 am

2	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB 2.2.x with PostgreSQL 9.2 supported?

Hi, we are currently evaluating to update our Puppet infrastructure, one open item is the required PostgreSQL version for PuppetDB 2.2.x. Does PuppetDB 2.2.x still support PostgreSQL 9.2? The upgrade ...

Stefan Dietrich
Feb 16, 2015 at 9:28 am
Feb 16, 2015 at 2:50 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Installing hiera-eyaml-gpg in Puppetserver

Hello, I'm trying to use hiera-eyaml-gpg with the puppetserver. I've tried installing it with: sudo -u puppet puppetserver gem install hiera-eyaml-gpg where puppet is the user running the ...

Raphink
Feb 12, 2015 at 11:17 am
Feb 16, 2015 at 9:54 am

2	[Puppet Users] Terminolgy ... puppet policy or recipe

Ok. So my company is going full on Puppet.. yey.. I've been using puppet for years. They are using the term "puppet recipes" all over the place. I always though that was a chef thing.... So I can set ...

Grant Schoep
Feb 16, 2015 at 1:29 am
Feb 16, 2015 at 7:41 am

2	[Puppet Users] iteration in future parser doesn't handle hashes as documented

From documentation at https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/experiments_lambdas.html With Puppet 3.7.4 this doesn’t work as documented: $ facter | grep system_uptime system_uptime = ...

Jo Rhett
Feb 15, 2015 at 10:49 pm
Feb 16, 2015 at 12:30 am

2	[Puppet Users] facter error esolved to an invalid value

All, I am getting the following problem with facter on 5 of my nodes, Fact resolution fact='enviro', resolution='<anonymous ' resolved to an invalid value: Expected (?-mix:xxx(vs|sv).{2,7}\d{1,2}) to ...

Robert Reilly
Feb 11, 2015 at 1:04 pm
Feb 12, 2015 at 2:53 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Enterprise Linux puppet-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch doesn't include the init script

Hi, I just installed puppet and puppet-server on my CentOS 7 puppet master system but I noticed that there's no init script included (and none gets created). The following doc says there should be ...

Bryan Arenal
Feb 11, 2015 at 4:18 am
Feb 11, 2015 at 5:54 am

2	[Puppet Users] how to prevent certificate revocation list (CRL) from expiring

I've noticed that if a Puppet agent happens to contact the master after the "next update" time listed in the CRL openssl crl -in `puppet master --configprint hostcrl` -noout -nextupdate that the ...

Josh Bronson
Feb 4, 2015 at 11:44 pm
Feb 10, 2015 at 12:32 am

2	[Puppet Users] Exporting resource to a particular host

Hi I am using puppetdb and exported resource to manage autmatic nagios setup. It works very well. Now I want to setup another nagios server for another set of machines using same puppetdb and puppet ...

Mohammad kashif
Feb 4, 2015 at 11:41 am
Feb 5, 2015 at 3:06 pm

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