puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for July 2015

16	[Puppet Users] Advice on Puppet update to 4

Greetings, First, a short intro. :-) Last year I invested quite a bit of time building out a puppet infrastructure. I have +150 Scientific Linux 6 and RHEL 6 servers running puppet 3.7.1. It has been ...

Stack Kororā
Jul 20, 2015 at 11:28 pm
Jul 25, 2015 at 11:37 pm

12	[Puppet Users] Ordering without dependencies

hello, I am looking for a way to influence run order without also doing dependencies. I have a case where I am removing a bit of software from my system and so as is typical things need to be done in ...

R.I.Pienaar
Jul 3, 2015 at 1:11 pm
Jul 6, 2015 at 3:25 pm

11	[Puppet Users] basic question about hiera

Hi, Very basic question about hiera file. I've hieradata/my_host.yaml I like at the end of my_host.yaml make something like include my_host_add.yaml is it possible ? The reason is some data is ...

Albert Shih
Jul 8, 2015 at 1:39 pm
Jul 10, 2015 at 3:14 pm

10	[Puppet Users] Windows batch file execution

Hello, all. I'm trying to execute the following batch file (sageset.bat) on Win2k8 servers: @ECHO OFF REM Enable components to cleanup REG ADD ...

Dimitri Yioulos
Jul 29, 2015 at 7:48 pm
Aug 7, 2015 at 3:24 pm

9	[Puppet Users] Getting data out of hiera?

Hi, I use to keep all my class parameters in the default hiera data file, /var/lib/hiera/defaults.yaml, but now I need to maintain another set of nodes that would need to use different values for the ...

Russell Cecala
Jul 21, 2015 at 5:48 am
Jul 21, 2015 at 9:06 pm

9	[Puppet Users] puppet 3.8.1 reinstalling downgraded package on ubuntu precise

Greetings, I'm using puppet 3.8.1 on ubuntu precise. My manifest includes a very simple package to install docker. package { $docker::params::docker_package_name: ensure = present, require = ...

Randall Smith
Jul 10, 2015 at 5:42 pm
Jul 17, 2015 at 3:34 am

7	[Puppet Users] Cannot update Puppet 3.7.5 to 3.8.1 on Windows

Hi all, updating Puppet from 3.7.5 to 3.8.1 fails on all my Windows Server 2008R2 nodes. I'm using the following code (puppet.pp): *package { 'Puppet':* * ensure = "3.8.1",* * source = ...

Cko
Jul 17, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Jul 24, 2015 at 2:42 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Puppet server failing on invalid UTF-8 facts

Hello, I'm having some issues after upgrading to Puppet 4. Basically on a puppet agent run I get this error: *Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: invalid byte ...

Giorgio
Jul 9, 2015 at 3:02 pm
Jul 22, 2015 at 5:40 pm

7	[Puppet Users] facter 3 and linux disagree about interfaces

On a linux, if I enumerate interfaces using standards tools I get : ~# ip link list 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ...

Fabrice Bacchella
Jul 21, 2015 at 4:50 pm
Jul 21, 2015 at 8:15 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Dictating class evaluation order

Hi, I have a Puppet manifest which makes use of the tomcat::instance defined type from the camptocamp/tomcat module on the Puppet Forge as follows: class apps::reservations { include tomcat ...

Andrew Langhorn
Jul 18, 2015 at 11:19 pm
Jul 20, 2015 at 8:24 am

6	[Puppet Users] Puppet4, Hiera3, and environments

Greetings, I need help; I have been going in circles for too long now and I am sure it is something silly that I over looked. I am attempting to use environments with a new server build for Puppet 4 ...

Stack Kororā
Jul 23, 2015 at 9:23 pm
Jul 24, 2015 at 1:05 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Newbie question regarding the file resource

Hi folks, I'm super new to Puppet but decently experienced with Chef, I'm trying to apply my Chef logic to some things I'm trying to do in Puppet but I've hit what is probably a simple snag. And ...

Fabien Delpierre
Jul 20, 2015 at 4:18 pm
Jul 21, 2015 at 2:33 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Running the Puppet 4 master from the AIO package (especially passenger/rack)

Hi list, I'm currently trying to get Puppet 4 to work with nginx/passenger. I had that working with Puppet 3.x pretty well, but the new packaging stumps me. For one, the config.ru file is no longer ...

Felix Frank
Jul 17, 2015 at 8:08 pm
Jul 19, 2015 at 12:01 am

6	[Puppet Users] Net::ReadTimeout errors

Hey all, I'm running puppet version 3.7.5 with foreman 1.7.4. Everything was going well with this setup for quite a long time. Many months at least it ran without even so much as a hiccup! Until ...

Tim Dunphy
Jul 15, 2015 at 3:12 am
Jul 18, 2015 at 7:58 pm

6	[Puppet Users] PuppetLabs Netscaler Module

I am attempting to use the puppetlabs netscaler module to manage, well a Citrix Netscaler :) I setup my /etc/puppet/device.conf on the puppet agent that will act as the proxy: [usc1lb01] type ...

Matthew Ceroni
Jul 13, 2015 at 9:41 pm
Jul 15, 2015 at 6:32 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Hiera auto binding

Hello, i was reading this doc "http://garylarizza.com/blog/2014/10/24/puppet-workflows-4-using-hiera-in-anger" which says it's not good idea to use Hiera auto binding feature, can you guys suggest if ...

DJ
Jul 8, 2015 at 3:57 pm
Jul 9, 2015 at 2:31 pm

5	[Puppet Users] puppetlabs-splunk needs LOTS of usage examples

Does anybody actually use the puppetlabs-splunk module ? I've been battling this for too many hours and have a bunch of questions. I can't really find any references via Google that this is getting ...

Vince Skahan
Jul 28, 2015 at 5:31 pm
Jul 29, 2015 at 8:42 pm

5	[Puppet Users] puppet facts and mcollective are incompatible

I used to fill mcollective yaml facts with a simple facter -p foo.yaml. But with facter 3, -p is gone, one should use 'puppet facts --render-as yaml' instead. So far so good, but mcollective can't ...

Fabrice Bacchella
Jul 20, 2015 at 9:12 pm
Jul 21, 2015 at 4:42 pm

5	[Puppet Users] how to export path in bashrc via puppet script

exec { file1: command = "/bin/echo "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64"; /home/haas/.bashrc", } } i try to added java path. facing issue. Error: Could not retrieve catalog from ...

Ayyanar
Jul 16, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Jul 18, 2015 at 5:39 pm

5	[Puppet Users] How to make service start depend on a file existing

I would like to prevent a service starting until a certain file exists. The wrinkle is that the file is not (directly) created by puppet. I'm thinking that I want to somehow 'declare' the file to ...

Mark Kirkwood
Jul 8, 2015 at 1:21 am
Jul 10, 2015 at 1:10 pm

5	[Puppet Users] How to ensure puppet agent run if cron is used and service disabled?

Hi, I have a question about how to manage puppet agent run. I am using cron for Puppet agent to run at a specific time. Since I use cron to run puppet agent, I disable the puppet daemon service ...

Staceytian4321
Jul 2, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Jul 3, 2015 at 6:10 am

4	[Puppet Users] Complex edits on /etc/default/grub (Setting transparent_hugepage at boot time)

I need to disable transparent_hugepage at boot time (before some big services start up). This is on centos7 machines using SystemD. There are many ways to do this. It isn't clear which is the ...

Tom Limoncelli
Jul 29, 2015 at 9:30 pm
Aug 4, 2015 at 12:08 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Is there a way to deploy our configuration to agent.

If you know the answer say "Yes" or "No". Thanks, Ayyanar Thangaraj -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group ...

Ayyanar
Jul 29, 2015 at 9:42 am
Aug 3, 2015 at 9:03 am

4	[Puppet Users] Re: Lucid leaving apt.puppetlabs.com

Hi I understand that you won't build new packages any longer. But why are you removing the old packages? Why can't you keep the packages around? Some of these packages are needed in order to upgrade ...

Ehsan Foroughi
Jul 28, 2015 at 6:52 pm
Jul 31, 2015 at 4:01 pm

4	[Puppet Users] rpm installation ordering question and yum repos

Like many sites, we have internal yum repos that contain our internally-created rpms, as well as some other repos that are internal mirrors of upstream sites (centos updates, etc.). We're running ...

Vince Skahan
Jul 24, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Jul 31, 2015 at 1:14 pm

4	[Puppet Users] How to search and replace a word in file

1." sed -i 's/\$\$HISTORY\$\$/puppet/' /etc/system.com " I want to replace a word $$HISTORY$$ with puppet text into /etc/system.com file. Thanks for your commands. Ayyanar. -- You received this ...

Ayyanar
Jul 23, 2015 at 7:27 am
Jul 27, 2015 at 6:11 am

4	[Puppet Users] how to use file resource with source file name unknown

Hello, I have a module to copy files /etc/hostname.* in Solaris. But the interface name can be any. e.g. networking/file/vm6742/hostname.e1000g0 networking/file/vm6742/hostname.e1000g1 I do not want ...

Andreas Dvorak
Jul 7, 2015 at 10:22 am
Jul 8, 2015 at 1:06 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Config test when restarting a service

Hi folks, I'm tying myself in knots trying to figure out the best metaparameters to use here. I want to define an exec that only runs when a service is scheduled to be restarted. It should check the ...

Jonathan Gazeley
Jul 6, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Jul 7, 2015 at 1:50 pm

4	[Puppet Users] yum disable/enable repo with wildcards

We've set up local mirrors of a number of upstream repos, and want to point our puppet-managed boxes at the local mirrors only. Assuming we named our mirror repos local-mirror-whatever, if I was ...

Vince Skahan
Jul 2, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Jul 7, 2015 at 1:15 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 is now available!

Hi all, The new Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 is here! We've added features to help you deploy and move faster without sacrificing reliability, with new capabilities to: - Visualize your infrastructure ...

Stephanie Stouck
Jul 28, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Jul 28, 2015 at 10:15 pm

3	[Puppet Users] fileserver.conf -- files not serving

Hi there, I am trying to keep Puppet modules in sync between Puppet masters in an environment where SSH is being blocked between the masters (long story there, corporate security rules), Git and ...

Peter Berghold
Jul 27, 2015 at 6:58 pm
Jul 28, 2015 at 5:08 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Memory leak in Passenger ?

Hello, in the past months we are observing raising memory usage on our puppet server and we have to restart it once a week when it starts swapping. Mainly there are 5 Passenger processes that are ...

Michael Wörz
Jul 24, 2015 at 7:56 am
Jul 28, 2015 at 12:25 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Newbie: Agent doesn't find master

Dear All, sorry, I'm a newbie. My agent doesn't find the master. Where can I specify the master's name? It's working, when the master is called puppet, but not if it has another name ... TIA - Chris ...

Chris
Jul 27, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Jul 27, 2015 at 8:46 pm

3	[Puppet Users] ripienaar/puppet-module-data Not working with the Vagrant puppet provisioner.

For some time I have been using the excellent ripienaar/puppet-module-data module. This provides a very familiar way to use Hiera but at the individual module level. I have recently upgrade to Puppet ...

Fraser Goffin
Jul 26, 2015 at 7:16 pm
Jul 27, 2015 at 7:28 am

3	[Puppet Users] puppetserver puppetdb and storeconfigs=true

Hi all, I'm attempting a migration from a PuppetDB 2.x and rack Puppet 3.8.1 install over to the all new 'pc1' puppetserver puppet-agent PuppetDB v3 stack[0]. On the two nodes I've tried so far (the ...

Steph Gosling
Jul 23, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Jul 23, 2015 at 10:11 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Using client-side hiera data in puppet agent while using a puppet master

Hi, we're currently transforming some ugly perl-based management scripts (which placed some config data on the client and then configured something with it) to puppet. While it is definitely the best ...

Bjoern pohl
Jul 17, 2015 at 7:31 am
Jul 20, 2015 at 6:30 am

3	[Puppet Users] Generate an array from PuppetDB

Hello list. I'm trying to use PuppetDB to link a webserver cluster to an EJB cluster. Each webserver host need to reference a comma separated list of IPs provided by each EJB host Exporting and ...

Joao Morais
Jul 16, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Jul 17, 2015 at 5:13 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Package versions in PuppetDB

Hi! I can run 'puppet resource package' on a node to get a list of installed packages and version numbers. are those version numbers available through a PuppetDB(2.3) API query? the ...

Jer Johnson
Jul 16, 2015 at 10:27 pm
Jul 17, 2015 at 2:13 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Modul postgresql cannot handle negative value when writing config files

Hi, I try to setup streaming replication using puppet. I installed the official module postgresql and I succeed writing postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf. My problem is I cannot put negtive values in ...

Rbrinkmann
Jul 15, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Jul 16, 2015 at 4:53 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Augeas: Skipping because no files were changed

I am trying to add two new options to grub.conf using augeas. The code is as follows: augeas { 'grub.conf/8250_LAR': tag = chris1, incl = '/boot/grub/grub.conf', lens = 'Grub.lns', changes = [ 'set ...

Chris Lee
Jul 7, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Jul 8, 2015 at 11:48 am

3	[Puppet Users] Exposing master to the public internet

Hi I have a fleet of headless devices to manage that are going to be deployed all over the place on various networks but connected to the public internet. I'm evaluating if it would make sense to ...

Nik Haldimann
Jul 2, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Jul 6, 2015 at 11:32 am

3	[Puppet Users] Copy File from one Puppet Agent to another Puppet Agent

Hello! I have a problem and hope someone of you has a idea how to solve this. I would like to save a configuration file of nxlog on another Puppet (Agent) Node. The problem is, I have the template of ...

Hoize
Jul 1, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Jul 6, 2015 at 8:55 am

2	[Puppet Users] comments on the Type system and some questions

hello, I've done a few little things with the type system and really like what it achieves, was able to find a few bad data items in my hiera data and it saves on a lot of the super annoying ...

R.I.Pienaar
Jul 30, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Aug 1, 2015 at 9:28 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Release Note Notification

Greetings, Is there a way to receive a notification when a new release of the Puppet Server <https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetserver/latest/release_notes.html and/or Puppet Client? Thank you -- You ...

Michael Speth
Jul 28, 2015 at 12:13 pm
Jul 28, 2015 at 4:48 pm

2	[Puppet Users] How to enable/create environments for new puppetserver setup (not puppetmaster)

Hi Puppet users, I am testing out the new puppetserver vs the apache/passenger setup for the master, problem is that when i created a new environment I am unable to start puppetserver. Anything i ...

Gene Fontanilla
Jul 23, 2015 at 6:29 am
Jul 24, 2015 at 7:38 am

2	[Puppet Users] puppetserver does not sign its certificate

Hi, something I noticed when trying a simple puppetserver setup. I installed puppetserver from PC1 on a Debian 7 box (will try Debian 8 once PC1 has puppetserver for it) and just started the ...

Felix Frank
Jul 19, 2015 at 9:22 pm
Jul 22, 2015 at 11:01 pm

2	[Puppet Users] How can I install ruby193 gems on CentOS 6 with softwarecollections (SCL)?

Hello, I have a CentOS 6 system running Puppet 3.8, and I use SCL (Software Collections <https://www.softwarecollections.org ) to install some packages like http24 and ruby193. I am having trouble ...

Stefan Lasiewski
Jul 7, 2015 at 7:22 pm
Jul 22, 2015 at 3:33 pm

2	[Puppet Users] puppet collectors plus own data

Hi, I am using saz/ssh [1], it works fine with exported resources (host keys) and autogenerated /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts ... But I did not find any solution to add host keys from systems, where ...

Thomas Polnik
Jul 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Jul 21, 2015 at 1:15 pm

2	[Puppet Users] rspec question: how to test that no resource exists with certain parameters?

RSpec question for all the helpful folks here: How do I test that there is no resource in the catalog that matches certain parameters? I know how to test that a specific resource does not exist, or a ...

Johnson Earls
Jul 20, 2015 at 7:28 pm
Jul 21, 2015 at 12:27 am

2	[Puppet Users] Case of the "missing" Ruby file

Hi folks, I've bravely stepped out into the world of writing tests for my Puppet modules to ensure code quality. Have run into an issue. My spec/spec_helper.rb has one line. require ...

Peter Berghold
Jul 20, 2015 at 1:39 pm
Jul 21, 2015 at 12:19 am

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