puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for January 2016

16	[Puppet Users] Making a "role" fact work

Hi All, I'm trying to add a new fact to puppet, which is the role the host has - I'm using the popular roles/profiles methodology, so all nodes have exactly one role::<something class. I want to get ...

Gareth Humphries Ig
Jan 28, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Feb 1, 2016 at 3:12 pm

7	[Puppet Users] puppet 3 to 4 deprication error

I'm planning to migrate puppet3.8 to 4.x, so testing the compatibility of code by using parser=future in puppet.conf file and was stuck at the following error when i run puppet agent. The error is ...

Rhpuppetuser
Jan 22, 2016 at 4:51 pm
Jan 24, 2016 at 2:13 pm

7	[Puppet Users] How to cope with accented characters in DisplayName using Puppet 3.8.x on Windows XP?

Hi! On Windows 7 we have Puppet 4.2.x and, in order to deal with accented characters commonly found in registry key DisplayName, we use unicode escape sequences in our manifests such as "\u00FA" ...

Tiago Delboni
Jan 8, 2016 at 1:25 pm
Jan 21, 2016 at 7:47 am

6	[Puppet Users] Puppet/Puppetboard throwing error 'Internal Server Error'

Getting following error in apache logs : [Mon Jan 25 11:44:21.960584 2016] [:error] [pid 13523] ERROR:pypuppetdb.api:Not Found localhost:8080 over HTTP. [Mon Jan 25 11:44:21.964374 2016] [:error] ...

Manoj Kumar
Jan 25, 2016 at 12:29 pm
Feb 13, 2016 at 1:17 pm

6	[Puppet Users] German Umlauts in Catalog

Hi, how can I use - with a puppet 3.8.3 x64 Windows clients - a File Resource with öüä character. The test on the Master works fine. On the Client I get: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII and he ...

Bjoern Meier
Jan 19, 2016 at 10:14 am
Feb 12, 2016 at 10:43 pm

6	[Puppet Users] puppet cert list yields no certs

Greetings, I am attempting to get a puppet 3.7 install off the ground. Please don't ask me to upgrade to 4.X series. :) On the puppet master (puppet-3-7.example.net): # puppet master --no-daemonize ...

Matt Zagrabelny
Jan 7, 2016 at 11:17 pm
Feb 7, 2016 at 3:58 pm

6	[Puppet Users] librarian-puppet vs R10K

Hi all, I am interested in the future of the Librarian-puppet project - to find out how many people are still using it, and if there are people out there who actually prefer it over R10K. I recently ...

Alex Harvey
Jan 28, 2016 at 2:40 pm
Jan 29, 2016 at 3:33 am

6	[Puppet Users] Recommended way to get mcollective working with PC1

It doesn't look like PC1 includes middleware for mcollective. I'm not finding documentation specifically for mcollective and PC1. Is activemq still the preferred middleware? If so, should I install ...

Kenton Brede
Jan 14, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Jan 16, 2016 at 1:41 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Facter - custom fact regex

Hello all, I'm having some trouble with a custom fact and I was hoping somebody could tell me what I'm doing wrong. Here is an example of the code: require 'facter' Facter.add('network') do setcode ...

Mike Reed
Jan 12, 2016 at 11:42 pm
Jan 14, 2016 at 9:42 pm

5	[Puppet Users] How to install tomcat silenlty using puppet on Windows 7

Hi, I'm new user to puppet tool and I have few issues while installing tomcat silently on windows. this is my manifest file package { 'tomcat-8' : ensure = present, source = ...

Maruti Gangumolu
Jan 22, 2016 at 12:38 am
Feb 12, 2016 at 7:54 am

5	[Puppet Users] Profile as a Git Sub-module

Been using the Roles and Profiles pattern for a while, but only recently had the need to create a Profile that is required in a number of Roles. Typically we use Git sub-modules when we want to do ...

Fraser Goffin
Jan 1, 2016 at 8:16 am
Feb 10, 2016 at 7:18 pm

5	[Puppet Users] How to run shell command on puppet agent

Hi all, Just trying to solve a little thing: I understand that inline_template() gets complied on the PM and return the result that is not native to puppet agent . i.e. $ls_users = ...

Sans
Jan 29, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Feb 2, 2016 at 2:31 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Using Future Parser on Puppet v3.8.2

Hi there, Need to iterate over an arry, so was trying the Future Parser. Using a very simple example: $alpha = ['a','b','c'] each($alpha) |String $value| { notice( "Hi there, ${value}" ) } but ...

Sans
Jan 29, 2016 at 8:44 pm
Feb 2, 2016 at 2:15 am

5	[Puppet Users] Warning: Local environment: "production" doesn't match server specified node environment

Greetings, I've searched a bit and found some hits for the subject, but nothing that helps. I'm using an ENC to drive the environment of my nodes. I don't have "production" defined anywhere in my ...

Matt Zagrabelny
Jan 27, 2016 at 4:49 pm
Jan 31, 2016 at 4:32 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Error: Could not find class apache

Hi Team, I'm new to puppet coding and I'm trying to install apache tomcat using class which is being included in nodes.pp file. I'm getting this error message when running site.pp file ...

Maruti Gangumolu
Jan 25, 2016 at 8:11 pm
Jan 30, 2016 at 4:16 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Error: Cannot start Windows Service. Access denied

Hi, i have Puppet v3.7.2 and same agent on Windows Server 2012 R2. Now i'm training to maintain Windows Services. For that i created new manifest: # cat ...

Alex M
Jan 28, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Jan 29, 2016 at 2:52 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Puppet x64 msi not installing files

I’ve got a user on Windows 10 x64 Pro that we’ve been having some issues with the puppet install on his machine. To fix, I tried upgrading the client from 3.8.3 to 3.8.4 from the Puppet Open Source ...

Gary Greene
Jan 14, 2016 at 11:12 pm
Jan 28, 2016 at 8:08 am

5	[Puppet Users] r10k database backend

Has anyone thought about or tried to have r10k run against a mysql backend to populate at least the information the puppetfile gives? Updating each puppetfile for a large number of “Environments” can ...

Patrick Lesher
Jan 25, 2016 at 11:47 pm
Jan 26, 2016 at 7:24 pm

5	[Puppet Users] POC Update for PuppetForce Apache Module

Hello, I am new to distributed development and Puppet. The one thing that was bothering since I started learning this product is the lack of ability to run more than one instance of Apache per host ...

A J
Jan 5, 2016 at 4:04 pm
Jan 22, 2016 at 9:22 am

5	[Puppet Users] How to manage half file.

Hi everybody. I want to manage through puppet a config file for a php web application. But I just want manage all of it's content except one line, because this line is manage by the application ...

Albert Shih
Jan 13, 2016 at 8:28 pm
Jan 15, 2016 at 11:38 am

5	[Puppet Users] Newbie Question

Hi New to puppet. I am trying to do some testing. I have a centos 6.7 installed VM. I have setup the puppet repo's Then installed puppetserver-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch I edited this ...

Alex Samad
Jan 7, 2016 at 3:18 am
Jan 7, 2016 at 11:21 pm

5	[Puppet Users] exec check for directory

Hi, I am writing a module to place a file into a directory only if the directory exist. If the directory or source does not exist it should simply ignore without throwing an error message. However I ...

Linux Shell29
Jan 5, 2016 at 11:51 am
Jan 6, 2016 at 2:35 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Problems testing branching using rspec-puppet with hiera

Hi all! I've been banging my head against this for the past couple of days and I'm pretty stuck. I've started implementing rspec tests for a class that uses a hiera lookup and then uses the looked up ...

Jwilkicki
Jan 27, 2016 at 10:27 pm
Feb 17, 2016 at 3:29 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Prefetch in custom types in Puppet v4?

Hi guys, I've noticed the following problem with one of my providers in v4. This is the original prefetch method I used: def self.prefetch(resources) instances.each do |prov| if resource = ...

Jakov Sosic
Jan 19, 2016 at 1:52 am
Feb 11, 2016 at 11:02 pm

4	[Puppet Users] What I think that is needed for a practical Puppet class

Hi, This is just report of something I just wrote on my blog (http://blog.webworm.org/content/whats-needed-practical-puppet-class) . Feel free to comment here or through (@rgevaert) twitter or ...

Rudy Gevaert
Jan 1, 2016 at 10:36 pm
Feb 10, 2016 at 1:24 am

4	[Puppet Users] Overriding file resource with class inheritance

I'm creating a module, and I want to override the file resource for puppet.conf which is defined within a module called "puppet". The resource declaration looks like this: # ...

Kyle Flavin
Jan 29, 2016 at 11:05 pm
Feb 1, 2016 at 7:04 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Announce: Facter 2.4.5 Available

Facter 2.4.5 is a backwards-compatible bug-fix release in the Facter 2 series. This release includes minor bug fixes to several different facts. To download Facter, follow the instructions here ...

Hailee Kenney
Jan 22, 2016 at 6:27 pm
Jan 26, 2016 at 1:28 am

4	[Puppet Users] Referencing hash values within module

Hello all, I've got a module that I've been working on in an attempt to make things a little smarter and I figured using a hash would be an elegant solution to my problem. The short story is that ...

Mike Reed
Jan 21, 2016 at 10:20 pm
Jan 22, 2016 at 7:58 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Serving files from custom mount point in Puppet 4

Hi Is serving files from custom mount point depreciated in puppet 4? I configured fileserver.conf file in same way as in puppet 3 but it is not working. I could not find any explicit statement in ...

Mohammad kashif
Jan 11, 2016 at 9:57 am
Jan 18, 2016 at 3:13 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Implement custom resource parent/child relationship

Hi, I am creating a Module for Mantis Bug Tracker (an issue tracker, https://www.mantisbt.org/), and I need to create new resource types for Project and User. The idea is to have Projects which can ...

Quaternaire
Jan 12, 2016 at 5:22 pm
Jan 13, 2016 at 4:40 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Puppet 4 : questions about PXP agent and its goal

Hello and happy new year @all ;) I have discovered recently the presence of the service "pxp-agent" after the installation of the AIO package "puppet-agent". Personally, in the puppet client side, ...

Francois Lafont
Jan 4, 2016 at 12:36 am
Jan 10, 2016 at 2:54 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Announce: Puppet 3.8.5 available

Puppet 3.8.5 is now available. This is a bugfix release that contains performance improvements to catalog compilation and Mac OS X service management, along with fixes for Windows agents and the ...

Eric Sorenson
Jan 27, 2016 at 10:58 pm
Feb 11, 2016 at 4:50 pm

3	[Puppet Users] hieradata in add mode

Hi, I'm asking something maybe stupid but well... I've got a hieradata - common.yaml - hostname.yaml I would like to have in common.yaml users_list : - user1 user1_ssh_key - user2 user2_ssh_key - ...

Albert Shih
Jan 6, 2016 at 10:11 pm
Feb 7, 2016 at 3:40 pm

3	[Puppet Users] New Resource Type for bareos

Hello, I try to make the bareos puppet module ready for puppetdb and fully automatic configuration. When I understand correctly, I'll need a resource type to export it and bring the client ...

Björn
Jan 21, 2016 at 2:23 pm
Feb 2, 2016 at 1:17 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Slightly Off-Topic: CI Test of Puppet module fail

Hello, I have a small problem with a Puppet module I've wrote. The module is: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/thbe/bacula When I check the module locally with: bundle exec rake validate && bundle exec ...

Thomas Bendler
Jan 19, 2016 at 11:55 am
Jan 20, 2016 at 6:52 pm

3	[Puppet Users] puppetserver 2.2.1-1puppetlabs1 r10k gem jruby not found

Hi, I'm trying to set up puppetserver for the first time. I installed puppetserver 2.2.1-1puppetlabs1 on a trusty server with the Debian package. I then installed r10k with 'puppetserver gem install ...

Rudy Gevaert
Jan 13, 2016 at 6:20 am
Jan 14, 2016 at 11:47 am

3	[Puppet Users] Missing node_aws sub-command in puppet using Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.1-el-7-x86_64

Hello, The node_aws cloud provisioning sub-command is missing in puppet. I have installed Puppet Enterprise 2015.3.1-el-7-x86_64 (TRAIL version tar) with q_puppet_cloud_install='y' The OS is 64 bit ...

Deepak Agarwal
Jan 7, 2016 at 2:35 pm
Jan 11, 2016 at 8:03 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Rubygem not visible to puppet

Puppet Version: 4.3.1 OS: Centos 7 Note: I am running MASTERLESS I used this to install a gem :- package { 'rubyzip': ensure = present, provider = 'gem', } It installed fine, in this location ...

Fraser Goffin
Jan 8, 2016 at 11:14 am
Jan 9, 2016 at 5:02 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Unable to add ssh-keys to known_hosts

Hey everyone, I been trying to figure how to manage public ssh keys with the following code. For some reason I'm unable to add public ssh-keys to known_hosts. When I run this code from a node it ...

Dr. Natas
Jan 1, 2016 at 4:52 am
Jan 4, 2016 at 9:09 pm

2	[Puppet Users] puppet module environment bug?

jamesg@puppet-master:/etc/puppet$ sudo puppet module list --environment tools_office /etc/puppet/environments/tools_office/modules └── garethr-docker (v4.1.1) /etc/puppet/modules ├── ...

James Green
Jan 29, 2016 at 9:43 am
Jan 29, 2016 at 10:38 am

2	[Puppet Users] configuration not applying but getting notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds

Hi, I am new to puppet and installed puppet standalone in my linux box. I generated module with command:"puppet module generate test-sample" . created file in test-sample/manifests/site.pp: class ...

Kumar kittu
Jan 27, 2016 at 10:52 am
Jan 27, 2016 at 2:48 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Announce: puppet-retrospec release 0.12.0 - generate modules, facts, functions, types, providers and schemas easily

Happy to announce that release 0.12.0 of puppet-retrospec is now available. Its taking me a long time to get this ready and this is a huge feature update, but retrospec is now even more useful ...

Corey Osman
Jan 26, 2016 at 4:59 pm
Jan 26, 2016 at 6:49 pm

2	[Puppet Users] manipulating new facts

Hi I'm migrating my puppet configuration from 3.6 to v4.2, but I'm having some problem with ip type facts. For example, I have this line : priority = inline_template('<%= 256 - ...

Diego Roccia
Jan 25, 2016 at 11:48 pm
Jan 26, 2016 at 6:08 pm

2	[Puppet Users] override values in puppet account creation

Hey guys, I've got a puppet module that creates user accounts on linux machines. I'm trying to override a couple settings in my config for the user's shell and home directory. And I'm getting this ...

Tim Dunphy
Jan 23, 2016 at 5:22 pm
Jan 23, 2016 at 7:27 pm

2	[Puppet Users] puppet can not auto update files under one dircetory when one of these files was deleted

In Centos 6.5, I use puppet 3.8.2. I found an question, for example: in pupept-server machine, there has diretory A, and a.conf in A, b.conf in A, then in puppet-agent, after synchronized(puppet ...

Paul zhao
Jan 21, 2016 at 10:03 am
Jan 21, 2016 at 2:36 pm

2	[Puppet Users] helloworld

Hi, i have Puppet 3.7.2 on Debian 8.2 x64. I added host Windows Server 2012 R2 into Puppet. Now i would like to do test manifest (Forder c:/test/ : present on WS) #cat ...

Alex M
Jan 20, 2016 at 8:31 pm
Jan 21, 2016 at 10:49 am

2	[Puppet Users] odd puppet-lint config problems

I'm doing some work around distributing a puppet-lint wrapper internally. Ideally I want a wrapper that reads a custom .puppet-lint.rc within the repo and the rc file is --only-checks so we can ...

Ramin K
Jan 20, 2016 at 9:17 pm
Jan 21, 2016 at 3:19 am

2	[Puppet Users] Use nodes with defined resource in nginx configuration

Hi, I am working on making our puppet infrastructure more dynamic where I can add any number of nodes and these will automatically be applied in another nodes configuration. *An example:* I have X ...

Frederik Bjerggaard Nielsen
Jan 18, 2016 at 3:03 pm
Jan 19, 2016 at 12:39 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Re: ensure => file, creating directories

I know this is ancient history but I just had the same thing happen. I have not been able to reproduce it. Do you remember any resolution? On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 9:06:25 AM UTC-5, ...

Clay Stuckey
Jan 13, 2016 at 6:58 pm
Jan 14, 2016 at 12:01 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Possible to subscribe to all resources of a specific type?

Is it possible to subscribe to a specific type? For example, refresh a resource if any resources of the type 'user' change? If so what's the syntax? -- You received this message because you are ...

Schofield
Jan 12, 2016 at 8:34 pm
Jan 13, 2016 at 7:46 am

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