puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for October 2015

14	[Puppet Users] Why the copied file on client site will not be recovered from server?

Hi, I change the copied file on client site on purpose to see if this will be recovered by server. According to the document, the changed file on client will be recovered by server every half an ...

Wei Chen
Oct 8, 2015 at 6:34 am
Oct 15, 2015 at 6:15 am

9	[Puppet Users] Use custom facts in erb templates

Hello Everyone, I have a YAML file which I am using to generate facts for one of my puppet agents. # facter -p box32.interfaces_ipv4.eth0.bootproto static # This works fine, but I am not sure how to ...

Vikas Kumar
Oct 11, 2015 at 5:37 pm
Oct 12, 2015 at 2:41 am

9	[Puppet Users] Multi environment and multi system

How to manage a Puppet Server with multi-environment and multi-system? Background: I am using a `puppet-environments` repository with some branches that represents my environments. r10k provides the ...

Joao Morais
Oct 3, 2015 at 12:08 am
Oct 6, 2015 at 10:31 am

8	[Puppet Users] Beaker and mock services

Hi all, I am investigating whether or not I can use Beaker to do acceptance testing on roles and profiles. I've had a look at Liam Bennett's excellent blog posts - ...

Alex Harvey
Oct 20, 2015 at 7:49 am
Nov 19, 2015 at 2:13 am

7	[Puppet Users] Exclude an element from array

Hello Everyone, I have a very basic code to stop and disable few services which I am running for CentOS/RHEL 6/7 servers. $stop_services = [ "ip6tables", "iptables", "auditd", "cups" ] service { ...

Vikas Kumar
Oct 10, 2015 at 11:47 am
Oct 12, 2015 at 1:18 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Ordering agent runs

Hi All, I have an odd requirement to contend with. We have puppet clients that have peers. While a catalog is being executed on one client, its peer must not execute its catalog until the other is ...

Rjl
Oct 6, 2015 at 6:39 pm
Oct 8, 2015 at 4:48 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Is there a more elegant way of declaring this variable and its value?

Hey folks, I have something like this in a manifest: class foo( $python_pips = { pbr = { ensure = '1.3.0', install_args = ['-I'] }, linecache2 = { ensure = '1.0.0', install_args = ['-I'] }, ...

Fabien Delpierre
Oct 5, 2015 at 3:51 pm
Oct 7, 2015 at 2:18 am

6	[Puppet Users] puppet agent 1.2.5 ?

It's marked as unreleased : https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP/fixforversion/14525/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugins.jira-development-integration-plugin:release-report-tabpanel ...

Fabrice Bacchella
Oct 1, 2015 at 8:28 am
Oct 12, 2015 at 6:21 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Write arrays to an erb

Hello guys, I am passing 4 arrays in the Hiera file a: {a,b,c} b: {d,e,f} c: {g,h,i} d: {j,k,l} which I am using them in an .erb template. However, when I am trying to run Puppet it is complaining ...

Sergiu Cornea
Oct 7, 2015 at 4:12 pm
Oct 9, 2015 at 3:13 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Puppet 3.8 to 4.2 migration issue...

Hi guys, I'm having problems migrating from 3.8 to 4.2... # puppet agent -tv --tags snmp --noop Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts Error: Could not retrieve ...

Jakov Sosic
Oct 13, 2015 at 2:45 pm
Oct 15, 2015 at 5:27 am

5	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB Service Won't Install/Start

Hi, I've just started to build a Centos 7 puppet master and I've applied the puppetdb classes as follows: class { 'puppetdb': } class { 'puppetdb::master::config': require = Class['puppetdb'] } The ...

Dan
Oct 8, 2015 at 7:33 pm
Oct 14, 2015 at 11:39 am

4	[Puppet Users] powershell detect then install nonexistent or replace existing custom service

I have a question and hopefully someone can help me resolve it - In windows, I have custom services that I need to manage. I've been running this code for a while, and it works well for several ...

Aaron
Oct 30, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Nov 30, 2015 at 9:44 pm

4	[Puppet Users] How to access a variable from parent define[d type]?

Hi guys. I have an issue with scope changes, and I am wondering how to proceed. This is what I've got: define first ( $somevar, ) { $name_array = split($title, '/') $developer = $name_array[0] ...

Jakov Sosic
Oct 29, 2015 at 6:05 am
Oct 30, 2015 at 1:31 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Passing 'undef' as a class parameter value

Hello When using class parameters I often face the same issue regarding undef usage. Let's say I got this simple class: class foo ( $service_ensure = 'running', ) { service { 'foo': ensure = ...

DEGREMONT Aurelien
Oct 27, 2015 at 9:03 am
Oct 27, 2015 at 1:53 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Puppet with Foreman for reports but noch ENC

Hello, currently I am running a Puppet Master with Foreman for reports and ENC and I have only one environment. The environment parameter in the file puppet.conf is not used because Foreman is an ...

Andreas Dvorak
Oct 20, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Oct 23, 2015 at 7:37 am

4	[Puppet Users] Facter 3.1 gem

Curious why there has not been a Facter 3.X gem made available? Any timeline on a release? Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet ...

Seincin
Oct 19, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Oct 22, 2015 at 7:08 pm

4	[Puppet Users] how to write a loop to convert all erb files to regular file?

Hi, so we have a few template setup under my_module/templates/ like create_pre_rac_setup.sh.erb run_this_rac.sh.erb .... and I write someting in init.pp $db_setup_home = ...

Yi zhao
Oct 21, 2015 at 12:23 am
Oct 21, 2015 at 10:54 pm

4	[Puppet Users] How to ensure the rpm version?

Hi, I try to use the puppet to configure the Jboss EAP 6.X. My first init.pp looks as follow: ... class jboss_rpm_install { # Required RPM package $jboss_core_rpm = [ "jbossas-appclient", ...

Wei Chen
Oct 16, 2015 at 8:50 am
Oct 19, 2015 at 8:24 am

4	[Puppet Users] rake coverage failing with rspec-puppet

Hey folks, I'm using a pretty recent version of Gareth's module skeleton and the included Rakefile. I can run "rake spec" fine but I don't seem to be able to get the "rake covereage" task to work. -- ...

Rich Burroughs
Oct 12, 2015 at 11:42 pm
Oct 18, 2015 at 8:28 pm

4	[Puppet Users] file absent in config manifest fails

Hey guys, On puppet server 3.8.2 here. And I have a file definition that I want to set as 'absent'. For example, this is what I have: file { '/etc/newrelic/newrelic.cfg': ensure = absent, path = ...

Tim Dunphy
Oct 15, 2015 at 2:14 am
Oct 16, 2015 at 1:34 pm

4	[Puppet Users] The right way to create Hiera resources?

Is there a right/approved/standard way to create hiera resources for forge modules that don't do it on their own? (This is a question about the right way to structure my Puppet code. I'm not asking ...

Marc Teale
Oct 7, 2015 at 9:07 pm
Oct 14, 2015 at 8:27 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Creating multiple directories based on variables or array

Hi, I'd need to create a number of directories in a fasion similar to that: /var/extlogs/$stage/$client-$application For example, if stages are integration, staging, production and clients are ...

Ugo Bellavance
Oct 13, 2015 at 5:20 pm
Oct 14, 2015 at 2:15 pm

4	[Puppet Users] err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter source failed on File[...]: Cannot use URLs of type 's001ap38-test' as source for fileserving at /etc/puppet/modules/httpd/manifests/init.pp:12

Hi all, As I run following command: puppet agent --server s001ap38-test --no-daemonize --verbose --onetime I got error as follow: ... err: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter source failed on ...

Wei Chen
Oct 6, 2015 at 1:02 pm
Oct 8, 2015 at 5:52 am

4	[Puppet Users] ANNOUNCE: puppet-retrospec -- automate your unit test creation and other cool stuff

Last year I had an idea to create a tool to automate the buildout of puppet unit tests by inspecting puppet code inside puppet manifests. Along with this idea I also wanted to retrofit any puppet ...

Corey Osman
Oct 1, 2015 at 5:24 am
Oct 7, 2015 at 9:40 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Announce: puppet-agent-1.2.6 now available!

Puppet Agent 1.2.6 is out! This is a new minor release of the all-in-one agent bundle which contains no updated component code, but fixes bugs in packaging and service management. * Includes a fix ...

Rob Braden
Oct 12, 2015 at 9:02 pm
Oct 28, 2015 at 5:06 pm

3	[Puppet Users] puppet + puppetdb: No Catalog received

Hi, I have a running puppet installation (version 3.8.3) I installed and configured a puppetdb node (2.3.8 with postgresql). Configured puppet master to user the new puppetdb node. When I run puppet ...

Em
Oct 27, 2015 at 10:52 am
Oct 27, 2015 at 12:49 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Confine a custom fact by file existence

Hi I know it's possible to confine a fact by other facts like "confine :operatingsystem = :Fedora". But i have a fact which requires a binary from a rpm package which is only installed by puppet. For ...

Thomas Müller
Oct 22, 2015 at 8:00 am
Oct 22, 2015 at 3:41 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Scheduled changes to SSL certs

Here's a problem that might have an interesting solution. I use Puppet to deploy (amongst other things) SSL certs for web servers. One of my certs is expiring in January 2016 and I have already been ...

Jonathan Gazeley
Oct 16, 2015 at 10:11 am
Oct 16, 2015 at 12:56 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Puppet saying "changed 'stopped' to 'running'" while the service is running

Hi All, I have some wired problem with my module to manage MacAfee services. My lab have around 150 servers and 145 of them works fine with the module I’ve created. There are 5 which shows these ...

Eddie Mashayev
Oct 14, 2015 at 7:51 am
Oct 15, 2015 at 1:14 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Can Windows environment variables be referenced by 'exec'

Puppet v3.4.3 What I was specifically hoping to do was: exec { 'test' : command = "%comspec% /c (a Windows command-line program with parameters)", } to avoid having to determine where Windows was ...

Leroy Tennison
Oct 9, 2015 at 7:53 pm
Oct 12, 2015 at 3:09 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Using ENC and node defintion for configuration

Hello Puppet Users, for handling my different environments I'am using directory environments. Every environment has its own node definiton stored in the nodes.pp. For only one of the environments I ...

Richard Rechenberg
Oct 7, 2015 at 2:07 pm
Oct 9, 2015 at 1:26 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Confused after system upgrade - F22, Puppet 4.1.0-5

So I upgraded our Puppet server to Fedora 22, which brought with it an upgrade from Puppet 3.8-ish to 4.1.0-5. And as this wasn't expected (I should have read and studied more -- it's definitely my ...

Bret Wortman
Oct 8, 2015 at 4:08 pm
Oct 9, 2015 at 1:14 pm

3	[Puppet Users] External fact script provided by module not parsing on CentOS6

I think it's a permissions issue, but not sure how to best resolve. On CentOS6 the plugin sync sets file mode for external fact script (/var/opt/lib/pe-puppet/facts.d/myfacts.sh) to 0644, and then ...

Roan O'Sullivan
Oct 5, 2015 at 3:47 pm
Oct 5, 2015 at 5:24 pm

2	[Puppet Users] JBOSS module installation and Configuration through puppet

Hi , first of all thanks to all group members for your valuable comments and suggestions,am big admirer of this group,i have requirement to develop module for JBOSS installation and Configuration ...

Raj kumar`
Oct 28, 2015 at 4:57 pm
Oct 29, 2015 at 11:31 am

2	[Puppet Users] RHEL 7 - Satellite 6.1 - Puppet Locally

We deploy our servers and use Puppet using Satellite 6.1. I deployed a server and am trying to test modules locally and it NEVER works. cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf [main] vardir = /var/lib/puppet ...

Tom Zurita
Oct 26, 2015 at 2:03 pm
Oct 27, 2015 at 1:18 pm

2	[Puppet Users] How to install r10k for puppet 2.7 on RHEL?

Hi, I use RHEL 5.6 PS. I've installed the puppet 2.7 via RedHat Satellite. This could be the old bersion. I am not sure if there is r10K for this old version. If yes, where to get it and install it? ...

Wei Chen
Oct 26, 2015 at 9:57 am
Oct 26, 2015 at 4:57 pm

2	[Puppet Users] What is the preferred method for getting back a single custom fact now that facter -p is deprecated?

While I'm a master of parsing clumped JSON by eye, not everyone might be... Thanks, Trevor -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 -- This account not approved for ...

Trevor Vaughan
Oct 23, 2015 at 9:46 pm
Oct 25, 2015 at 3:14 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Custom facts in facter

Hello, I created a custom fact with the following procedure : mkdir -p /etc/puppet/modules/facts/lib/facter touch apache.rb Content of apache.rb file : Facter.add('apache') do setcode do ...

Hugo Deprez
Oct 21, 2015 at 4:56 pm
Oct 22, 2015 at 12:14 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Install Puppet as Docker CLI image

Hi all, I am trying to set up the standalone puppet as a docker image to be used as a CLI. I am doing this so that my colleagues and I can share the same "environment" for running puppet on our ...

Justin Jackson
Oct 19, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Oct 20, 2015 at 3:45 pm

2	[Puppet Users] err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

Hi, I have two agents. I call up the agent with the same command as follow: puppet agent --test By one agent, it works. But by the other, it doesn't and I got error as follow: ... ]# puppet agent ...

Wei Chen
Oct 19, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Oct 20, 2015 at 6:16 am

2	[Puppet Users] Configure Jboss EAP with Puppet: How to set the 'jboss_bind_address'

Hi, I am trying to configure the Jboss EAP 6.X with an example code. It works and its init.pp looks as follow: ... ]# cat init.pp # Puppet class jboss_install to install jboss rpm and start # the ...

Wei Chen
Oct 15, 2015 at 11:44 am
Oct 16, 2015 at 6:35 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Making a Provider API Call Idempotent

In a custom type/provider I am writing it seems that the provider is not entirely idempotent. The provider ...

Danny Roberts
Oct 14, 2015 at 9:56 pm
Oct 16, 2015 at 5:03 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Reusable function/class code

I need to do the same process over and over again for numerous users. What would be the easy way to create a class or function to wrap the following code so that each time I need to do the following ...

Matt Shields
Oct 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm
Oct 16, 2015 at 1:13 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Install puppet 4.0 on centos 7?

I feel like I'm missing something super obvious here but I'm trying to install puppet 4.0 on centos 7 and the only packages i can see are 3.8.3. When I check the repo ...

Anton kropp
Oct 14, 2015 at 11:18 pm
Oct 14, 2015 at 11:50 pm

2	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB type casting wierdness

Given a site.pp that looks like this: define test_type ( $value = [], ) { $type = inline_template('<%= @value.class % ') notify { "${title} = ${type}": } } @@test_type { $::fqdn: value = [ $::fqdn ], ...

Simon Murray
Oct 12, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Oct 13, 2015 at 9:35 am

2	[Puppet Users] Custom Provider - Set all attributes on resource creation

I am writing my first custom type/provider for a Puppet module. I can correctly check for, create & destroy an instance of a resource as well as update attributes. The existing implementation of the ...

Danny Roberts
Oct 4, 2015 at 10:03 pm
Oct 5, 2015 at 11:02 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Passenger setup and CA

Hi, Currently we have 3 puppet masters behind a VIP load balanced (by hardware load balancer). We have an NFS mount share across the 3 servers which stores the puppet code and certificates etc. We ...

Andrew Hibbert
Oct 30, 2015 at 12:39 pm
Dec 6, 2015 at 12:53 pm

1	[Puppet Users] How to specify multiple values for resource attribute from command line

Hello, Is it possible to specify multiple attribute values from command line like below: # puppet resource user root user { 'root': ensure = 'present', comment = 'root', gid = '0', home = '/root', ...

Paweł Sadowski
Oct 30, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Oct 30, 2015 at 6:59 pm

1	[Puppet Users] puppetlabs/apache module and changin the default port

As far as I have read it's not possible to change the default port for Apache class { 'apache': default = 8080, } apache::listen { '8080': } will just add the port 8080 but the port 80 is still ...

Tobias Koeck
Oct 26, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Oct 27, 2015 at 2:17 pm

1	[Puppet Users] connecting puppet servers to puppet db

Hi. I need help connecting a puppet server to puppetdb. I installed puppetdb from packages (debian wheezy) following a guide from ...

Svan
Oct 2, 2015 at 2:31 pm
Oct 27, 2015 at 12:59 pm

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