puppet-users@googlegroups.com discussions for March 2016

11	[Puppet Users] Options for notifying external services in case of changing exported resources.

Hi list, I have a Puppet module (internal to the company) which makes use of exported resources. The exported resource data stored in PuppetDB is used to configure an external application. I'm ...

Jelle Smet
Mar 14, 2016 at 4:23 pm
Mar 22, 2016 at 6:43 pm

9	[Puppet Users] unable to create home directory

Hi, I am using # puppet-module-ssh In the yaml file I have: ssh::keys: admin: ensure: present user: admin type: dsa key: AAAA...== But when running puppet agent I get: Notice ...

Patrick G.
Mar 29, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Apr 1, 2016 at 2:32 pm

8	[Puppet Users] Is there a solid EOL date for the Puppet 3.8 release family?

I've had a few questions and I realized that I didn't actually know. Thanks, Trevor -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 -- This account not approved for unencrypted ...

Trevor Vaughan
Mar 9, 2016 at 8:15 pm
Mar 23, 2016 at 12:52 am

8	[Puppet Users] validate_bool() throwing in error syaing the value not a boolean

Hi guys, Suddenly started getting this error, which I cannot understand why I'm getting this: Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, "" is not a boolean. It looks to be a ...

Sans
Mar 3, 2016 at 10:23 am
Mar 5, 2016 at 2:21 pm

7	[Puppet Users] facter value - not returning expected result

Hey all, I'm a little stumped on why this fact is returning the incorrect value and I was hoping somebody would have some advice on this one. The fact is very basic and looks like this: # custom fact ...

Mike Reed
Mar 24, 2016 at 6:59 pm
Mar 24, 2016 at 11:18 pm

7	[Puppet Users] How to get a value of fact that has dot in name?

Hi guys, I have interfaces bond0.2 and bond0.3 respectively (VLAN tagged). How can I get IP address in hiera? I've tried this: myvar: "%{::networking.interfaces.bond0.2.ip}" but it produces error ...

Jakov Sosic
Mar 17, 2016 at 11:29 pm
Mar 19, 2016 at 1:24 am

7	[Puppet Users] Help to find Automation tool

Hello Team, I am a noob on automation. I should choose one tool between Puppet, CHEF and Spacewalk. I have done some research on the web and i found that puppet is better. But our company would like ...

Mamadou CHERIF
Mar 6, 2016 at 4:22 pm
Mar 11, 2016 at 6:05 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Pasword retrievel from external source on node

Hi, Anyone playing with the idea to manage passwords on the node by retrieving them from an externa source like cyberark ? The idea is to avoid storing passwords in some 'human readable' form in eg ...

Johan De Wit
Mar 10, 2016 at 11:05 am
Mar 19, 2016 at 10:48 am

6	[Puppet Users] Avoiding duplicate exported resource

I've created a module to configure a caching nginx proxy. I am running several of these proxies behind a load balancer. They all proxy the same external address. I'd like to export a nagios ...

Daniel Urist
Mar 3, 2016 at 5:11 pm
Mar 7, 2016 at 11:34 pm

5	[Puppet Users] how to check existences of a file in a ERB template?

Hi there, I'm setting up a multi-tenancy WordPress environment, where multiple sites are structured as: /var/www/<site_name . Long story short: I want to put a line in the wp-config.php based on ...

Sans
Mar 28, 2016 at 7:44 pm
Mar 29, 2016 at 7:05 pm

5	[Puppet Users] DRY duplicated manifest code

Greetings Puppet Users, I have a chuck of code I'd like to centralize - you know DRY. I've looked into a custom function, but I'm uncertain how to get at the the puppet resources inside of ruby. Here ...

Matt Zagrabelny
Mar 23, 2016 at 7:41 pm
Mar 23, 2016 at 9:17 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Template problems

Hi, I'd like to be able to do something but I always get an error. Here is my code: <% if userotatelogs == false -% CustomLog /var/log/httpd/<%= name % /access.log combined <% else -% CustomLog ...

Ugo Bellavance
Mar 8, 2016 at 3:32 am
Mar 10, 2016 at 1:31 am

5	[Puppet Users] Usage of aws module from resource abstraction layer

Hey folks, How you guys maintain your ec2 instances using aws module from command line? I intend to rely on RAL or mco to be able to provision instances on demand, without declaring them in ...

Sergey Zemlyanoy
Mar 3, 2016 at 8:12 pm
Mar 4, 2016 at 4:44 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Resources sharing across different classes.

Hi All, I am facing an issue to notify a service from different module whenever file changes. Example: I have a addfile module which creates a file and want to notify tomcat service which is present ...

Afroz Hussain
Mar 31, 2016 at 11:43 am
Apr 1, 2016 at 2:11 pm

4	[Puppet Users] Virtual resources ?

Hi guys, I have a `test.pp` manifest that looks like: ``` define basket($arg) { file { "/tmp/$name": ensure = present, content = $arg, } } foobar = { 'fruit' = { arg = 'apple' }, 'berry' = { arg = ...

Jakov Sosic
Mar 31, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Apr 1, 2016 at 12:40 am

4	[Puppet Users] Use apt.puppetlabs.com on Ubuntu xenial: no suitable hash entry in Release file

Hi, i tried to use the apt.puppetlabs.com repo on xenial. Since there are not package for xenial yet i tried to use the package from Ubuntu wily instead, but i ran into this error: W: Failed to fetch ...

Andreas Roth
Mar 14, 2016 at 4:23 pm
Mar 28, 2016 at 4:36 pm

4	[Puppet Users] tidy - remove all files matching a pattern, except the most recently modified file

I would like to have a tidy resource that deletes all files recursively from directories matching a pattern, except for the most recently modified file. Something like this: tidy { 'clean up files ...

Tony Gaetani
Mar 15, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Mar 17, 2016 at 9:16 am

4	[Puppet Users] Hiera repository + environments + r10k

Question to the community. This isn't really a specific Puppet issue but more a question around the workflow that others are using. My basic setup is a git repository per module. Then I have a, what ...

Matthew Ceroni
Mar 8, 2016 at 8:23 am
Mar 9, 2016 at 3:22 am

3	[Puppet Users] Need hide execution window on Windows Scheduled Tasks

Hi, I'm using Puppet Agent 1.3.5 on Windows Server 2008 and 2012. When I create a Scheduled Task, it creates correctly but every time task is running, it shows the task screen. If the task is running ...

Jesus Vte. Vila
Mar 15, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Mar 29, 2016 at 12:57 pm

3	[Puppet Users] Puppet Enterprise + SELinux

Hi Does Puppet Enterprise support running puppet agent selinux confined? Seems at least EL6 and EL7 provide types but it seems pe-agent is not using them as they are started in initrc_t (EL6) or ...

Thomas Müller
Mar 24, 2016 at 9:16 am
Mar 24, 2016 at 1:50 pm

3	[Puppet Users] look up hiera hash's subkey within yaml

This is a bit nutty, but hopefully there's a way to do this. So far I have only been able to get the parent hash, not the nested one. The reason I don't want to do this in a manifest, is because I'd ...

Brett Swift
Mar 22, 2016 at 9:14 pm
Mar 23, 2016 at 1:55 pm

3	[Puppet Users] override class attributes

Hi - I am trying to figure out how to best override resource attributes for a module. I know this might not be the best way to do things, but it's where I am at currently. In summary: - I have a ...

TimV
Mar 14, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Mar 16, 2016 at 1:13 pm

3	[Puppet Users] how to safely distibute SSL keys with PuppetMaster

Hi there , I've a situation here, where I need to provide SSL key-pair for Nginx configuration and the SSL keys, that copied on to the agents as file{} resources goes to the repo, which is accessed ...

Sans
Mar 7, 2016 at 11:57 pm
Mar 9, 2016 at 2:31 am

3	[Puppet Users] Module parameter handling

Hi @all, I write a module that create local users on my boxes. Now I try to make that module fully dynamic so that the user informations are passed to the module as parameter like this: class { ...

Thomas Bendler
Mar 2, 2016 at 10:26 am
Mar 7, 2016 at 4:27 pm

3	[Puppet Users] puppet cannot find class.

Hi. I've made a class in the $basemodulepath location -- puppet config print | grep basemodulepath basemodulepath = /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules ls -R ...

dE
Mar 5, 2016 at 10:18 am
Mar 5, 2016 at 11:51 am

3	[Puppet Users] IS it possible to generate dynamically the configuration of a node ?

Hi, I'm new to puppet and a java developer. I'm looking for a way to force the puppet server to connect to my java app to get the configuration of a node ? If it is possible, could you please give an ...

Martin Rodriguez
Mar 2, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Mar 3, 2016 at 9:39 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Could not find default node or by name with 'vm7012.muc.baag, if not defined in manifests/node.pp

Dear all if I do not list a server in the directory manifests e.g. in nodes.pp the agent says: puppet agent -t Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts Error: Could ...

Andreas Dvorak
Mar 31, 2016 at 1:23 pm
Apr 1, 2016 at 6:30 am

2	[Puppet Users] Variables inside variables

Hi folks, Short version: I want to use a variable inside a variable to access a fact. Is this possible? Long version: Facter provides facts $::ipaddress and $::netmask which figure out which is your ...

Jonathan Gazeley
Mar 31, 2016 at 10:04 am
Mar 31, 2016 at 10:44 am

2	[Puppet Users] problem with hiera arrays ?

Since updating to the latest version of puppetserver, puppet agent and puppet db, I have a problem with hiera data arrays. I have a webserver profile with this code : […] apache::vhost { ...

EmAr
Mar 21, 2016 at 10:48 am
Mar 29, 2016 at 1:17 pm

2	[Puppet Users] Puppet 4 syntax highlighting in Wordpress

Hi all, Does anyone out there have any tips for getting nice-looking Puppet 4 syntax highlighting to work in a Wordpress blog? I am currently using Alex Mills's SyntaxHighlighter Evolved ...

Alex Harvey
Mar 27, 2016 at 8:53 am
Mar 28, 2016 at 4:57 am

2	[Puppet Users] Code_manager checkout fails during puppet run with a 401/404 error

I had Codemanger and git_lab running well, but had to move change the server name. After the name change, Git_lab is running fine from the GUI, and for code check-in. However the puppetmaster when it ...

Evan Hisey
Mar 17, 2016 at 5:06 pm
Mar 17, 2016 at 7:28 pm

2	[Puppet Users] directory environemnt doesn't seem to be working for vcsrepo

Hi there , I'm seeing a very strange error, which I cannot figure out where it's coming from: *Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter revision failed on Vcsrepo[/var/www/wp007/wp-content]: Invalid ...

Sans
Mar 14, 2016 at 9:40 pm
Mar 16, 2016 at 7:02 pm

2	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB: Input to insert-facts-pv-pairs! does not match schema

Hello, We have a few nodes that fail to submit facts to PuppetDB, and the replace facts commands end up in the DLO. The exception is: clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo: Input to insert-facts-pv-pairs! does ...

Akos Hencz
Mar 14, 2016 at 1:34 pm
Mar 15, 2016 at 11:54 am

2	[Puppet Users] Puppet 3.8 client on Ubuntu 14.04

Hi, I'm new with puppet and I help with agent server communication. - Server installed on CentOS 65 and called puupetmaster.home - Agent installed on Ubuntu 14.01 and called wikitest.home 1. I get ...

Albert Shamsiyan
Mar 9, 2016 at 10:30 am
Mar 10, 2016 at 5:26 am

2	[Puppet Users] Setting up Code Manager and running in to problem with r10k_api_user needing key and web hook failing test pushes

As the title says this is dealing with Code Manager. First I followed the directions in the gitlab module to setup gitlab, and that much worked up to testing code pushes. At this point it was ...

Evan Hisey
Mar 4, 2016 at 10:24 pm
Mar 8, 2016 at 6:28 pm

2	[Puppet Users] mcollective modules for puppet4

Does anyone have any examples of how to install the mcollective modules in a puppet4 environment? The yum repos for pc1 do not have the mcollective modules in the repo's path. They are there, but to ...

Zdehnert
Mar 4, 2016 at 10:45 pm
Mar 5, 2016 at 8:37 pm

1	[Puppet Users] fqdn fact is set to "localhost" at boot time

Hi, I'm running into a problem with puppet agent on my Mac's. I have ~200 mac's and when they reboot, a few of them (typically 5-10) have problems where the "fqdn" fact is set to "localhost" (as is ...

David Alden
Mar 30, 2016 at 9:48 pm
Mar 31, 2016 at 1:56 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Newbie Question

Hi I am just about finished running through the tutorial. I am planing ahead for rolling out puppet to manage my linux servers. So I am thinking I need a puppet servers. all the linux boxes need ...

Alex Samad
Mar 30, 2016 at 5:08 am
Mar 30, 2016 at 5:48 am

1	[Puppet Users] Configure puppet-master on 443 rather then 8140

Hi Team, By default when we install foreman puppet-master running/listen agent request on 8140, but I need to it on 443 only Can any one help me out to configure puppet master over 443 than 8140 ...

Rohit Sharma
Mar 29, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Mar 29, 2016 at 1:54 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Concat and Exported Resources with dynamically generated targets

Could anyone suggest the most 'puppet like' way of achieving the following please? I'd like to make use of concat::fragments, within multiple modules, that point to a dynamically defined 'target', ...

Tim Larkins
Mar 25, 2016 at 8:46 pm
Mar 28, 2016 at 1:35 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Wierd Puppet Master issue

Luckily this doesn't happen all the time, but I've seen in twice now in about a year's time on two different Puppet masters. Here's some background. I have in a central location a "Grand Master" that ...

Peter Berghold
Mar 23, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Mar 24, 2016 at 1:43 pm

1	[Puppet Users] forge module metadata: dependencies

Hello, recently, a user of a module I wrote reported a bug with dependencies. after some discussions on the IRC channel, it turned out that there was a bug in the 3.x series which is not scheduled to ...

Gabriel Filion
Mar 23, 2016 at 5:55 am
Mar 23, 2016 at 7:56 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Need help in AWS using puppet

Hi, I am trying to create the AWS VPC using ec2_vpc resource but facing some problem: class vpc_create { ec2_vpc { create-aws-vpc: ensure = 'present', name = "dev_vpc", cidr_block = '10.0.0.0/24', } ...

Sanjiv
Mar 11, 2016 at 3:35 pm
Mar 12, 2016 at 10:59 am

1	[Puppet Users] any way to pass parameters to a nested class?

I'm not sure if this is the right terminology, but what I have is basically a class called "base_modules" that includes several modules. This is so I don't have to specify each and every module for ...

Solarflow 99
Mar 10, 2016 at 7:00 am
Mar 11, 2016 at 5:40 am

1	[Puppet Users] Quick start guide problem

Following Quick start documents on centos 7 clean install, everything seems fine, and the module installs OK, but the class definitions cannot be updated, web button doesn't work. So, i cannot find ...

Gerard Forcada
Mar 10, 2016 at 3:31 pm
Mar 10, 2016 at 9:27 pm

1	[Puppet Users] maestrodev/wget + owner + group + mode

Hello, I'm new to puppet, I'm using maestrodev/wget to get some file to a folder I created. file { $_some_path: ensure = directory, owner = $_some_owner, group = $_some_group, mode = '0644' } After I ...

Vicente Zepeda
Mar 10, 2016 at 7:11 pm
Mar 10, 2016 at 7:17 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Hiera manifest development on workstation

Well, I have hiera running an working and beginning to handle my code. But I have run in to the problem of developing on on my workstation, but having to upload to the puppet server to test when ...

Evan Hisey
Mar 8, 2016 at 9:13 pm
Mar 9, 2016 at 2:03 pm

1	[Puppet Users] Quiet all notifies for one module

I'm working in an environment where I have to run puppet apply for my code, but the agent still runs with a completely different set of managed code. So far so good, but one problem I'm having is ...

Mark
Mar 8, 2016 at 4:20 pm
Mar 8, 2016 at 6:06 pm

1	[Puppet Users] mirroring puppet 4

Greetings, I maintain a open source software mirror used internally at ORNL, and have been successfully mirroring Puppet for some time. However a user asked me why he could not get Puppet 4 using the ...

Steve moulton
Mar 7, 2016 at 4:26 pm
Mar 7, 2016 at 5:47 pm

1	[Puppet Users] puppet.conf documentation

Greetings, I know that the puppet.conf documentation exists in extreme detail: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.7/reference/configuration.html What that page doesn't tell me is if the config items ...

Matt Zagrabelny
Mar 3, 2016 at 6:52 pm
Mar 6, 2016 at 9:48 pm

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