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21	[Puppet Users] Puppet and SVN

Hi just starting out with puppet. I found this http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Version_Control old page talks about checking /etc/puppet into svn. But on my centos install I ...

Alex Samad
May 22, 2016 at 10:42 am
Jun 1, 2016 at 12:51 am

15	[Puppet Users] Trouble creating a release RPM from puppetlabs/puppet source repo

I'm trying to create an RPM from source on a stock RHEL6-based (CentOS6) instance, but I'm seeing errors. I also posted in ...

Matt Larson
Jun 3, 2016 at 6:44 pm
Jun 17, 2016 at 8:30 am

13	[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 4, 2016 at 1:56 pm

12	[Puppet Users] Puppet 4.5 and git & R10K

Hi New install, I am doing this on Centos 6.x I have installed the repo RPM I believe this is PC1 repo yum --disablerepo '*' --enablerepo puppetlabs-pc1 list | grep puppetlabs-pc1 puppet-agent.x86_64 ...

Alex Samad
May 31, 2016 at 6:40 am
Jun 9, 2016 at 12:43 am

12	[Puppet Users] Broken puppetdb

Greetings All, I decided to try and implement the puppetlabs-puppetdb and puppetlabs-postgres modules after I had both puppetdb and postgres installed and working on my puppet server. This was ill ...

Jdehnert
Jun 11, 2016 at 3:36 am
Jun 13, 2016 at 5:06 pm

10	[Puppet Users] Puppet install failure

Hi Folks, ..on CentOS 7 # rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm # yum install puppet-server # puppet resource package puppet-server ensure=latest After doing this, ...

Paul Trepanier
Apr 26, 2016 at 7:40 pm
Apr 27, 2016 at 3:38 pm

10	[Puppet Users] Outofmemory error for puppetserver process

Hey Guys, I am wondering what is the problem with the following puppetserver process and how to have it resolved. Interesting thing is puppetserver is still running ! and is able to communicate it ...

Jim
May 24, 2016 at 2:54 am
May 31, 2016 at 5:31 pm

9	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB Issue with large array-valued fact

Hello all, We are running Puppet 4.2.2 and PuppetDB 3.2.0 with around 2400 nodes and growing. I am noticing some bad behavior with our PuppetDB, which is only going to get worse if what is below is ...

Mike Sharpton
Apr 19, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Apr 26, 2016 at 9:59 pm

9	[Puppet Users] python on puppet

Hi all, I am trying to manage python packages from puppet.I wanted to run the following commands *without using EXEC..* *After installing python-setuptools i tried to install pika using pip as ...

Bapi Loya
Apr 22, 2016 at 6:04 pm
Apr 22, 2016 at 9:25 pm

9	[Puppet Users] Logrotate module broken, string 'undef' now treated as undef

I have been using the yo61 logrotate module from puppetforge ( https://forge.puppet.com/yo61/logrotate), which seems to be the most popular, but it recently stopped working, with many errors about ...

Daniel Urist
May 18, 2016 at 9:33 pm
May 23, 2016 at 12:47 am

9	[Puppet Users] Hiera Hash Merge Issues

I've been trying to track down a problem with hiera_hash not merging. puppet-3.8.6-1.el7 hiera-1.3.4-1.el7 ## hiera.yaml :hierarchy: - test - common ## test.yaml --- rabbitmq_profile::vhosts ...

Leonard Smith
Jun 3, 2016 at 6:42 pm
Jun 3, 2016 at 8:08 pm

8	[Puppet Users] Hiera Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find data item classes in any Hiera data file and no default supplied

Hi, I'm currently testing hiera and I can't make it work. I get this error: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find data item classes in any Hiera data file and no default supplied at ...

Ugo Bellavance
Apr 19, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Apr 21, 2016 at 2:29 pm

8	[Puppet Users] Upgrading Puppet from 2.7 to 4

Hi, I'm fairly new to Puppet and have been given the project of upgrading an existing Puppet 2.7 site (Puppetmaster with Apache/Passenger, and MySQL for exported resources, with hundreds of clients), ...

Christg76
May 6, 2016 at 1:49 pm
May 17, 2016 at 7:42 am

8	[Puppet Users] How to access $facts['os'] in a manifest

Hi, I have the following code: if( $facts['os']['family'] == 'RedHat' and $facts['os']['release']['major'] == '7' ) { file { "...": ensure = 'file', path = "...", content = "...", } } My agent is ...

Marc Haber
Jun 1, 2016 at 2:43 pm
Jun 3, 2016 at 10:26 am

8	[Puppet Users] How to get modules recognized for use during classification

Another question... I have rebuilt my Puppetmaster (as some of you already know), and copied into place a module I wrote into - */etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules.* However, when I ...

Warron.french
Jun 1, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Jun 2, 2016 at 2:47 am

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] 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
Apr 12, 2016 at 2:57 pm

7	[Puppet Users] puppetlabs-release not signed

This morning I noticed on yum.puppetlabs.com that puppetlabs-release-6-12.noarch.rpm and puppetlabs-release-7-12.noarch.rpm are not signed (possibly others too, I didn't check). My yum cron job is ...

Jonathan Gazeley
Apr 20, 2016 at 9:11 am
Apr 21, 2016 at 5:44 pm

7	[Puppet Users] environmentpath in manifest

Hi, i need to check if a file exists on the puppet master. No big deal: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18784329/how-to-test-for-existence-of-a-file-on-the-puppet-master So i made: -- cat ...

Daniele Palumbo
May 9, 2016 at 1:45 pm
May 17, 2016 at 8:48 pm

7	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB Query based on facts

Hey all, I am trying to do what should be a simple thing. I need to query PuppetDB to gather a list of machines based on arbitrary facta being equal to true and the operatingsystemmajrelease fact ...

Mike Sharpton
Jun 3, 2016 at 1:40 pm
Jun 3, 2016 at 6:40 pm

7	[Puppet Users] Git Repo Strategy

Hello, I am relatively new to puppet and am trying to develop a good workflow in conjunction with git/github to keep a better version control system. The version of puppet that I am working with and ...

Funsaized
Jun 10, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Jun 16, 2016 at 11:14 am

6	[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

6	[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
Apr 13, 2016 at 9:22 pm

6	[Puppet Users] When usion puppet docker_platform with vagrant virtualbox the docker container is not started and after restart the docker daemon is not started

Hi! I try to create a virtualbox machine with vagrant and puppet provider. According to the documentation https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/docker_platform/readme#class-docker I have create ...

Apr 4, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Apr 8, 2016 at 9:44 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Strategies for "boring" packages

At work, we've written about 120 modules in our puppet code repository. About two dozen are "interesting", in that they have lots of parameters and configuration that is specific to our environment ...

J.T. Conklin
Apr 19, 2016 at 1:07 am
Apr 20, 2016 at 2:01 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Puppet MultiMaster open source

Hi... Is it possible to get compile master, master of master and code manager (file sync) working in the open source versions? Specifically: puppetserver-2.3.1-1.el7.noarch ...

Geoff Galitz
Apr 20, 2016 at 12:58 pm
Apr 26, 2016 at 11:08 am

6	[Puppet Users] Getting augeas type to working on OS X

Hello, I'm working on automating of OS X vmware build using Puppet. I use Packer to build the base image (based on excellent work done in https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates) and take the ...

Amos Shapira
Apr 22, 2016 at 4:23 am
Apr 27, 2016 at 11:19 am

6	[Puppet Users] PuppetDB resources are not available

Hi, I am trying to access resources from PuppetDB API as follows, API makes a successful call but empty response. *API call:* curl -X GET 'http://sdin-swt-ctf-01:8080/v3/resources/' *Ouput:* [ ] Is ...

Harish Kothuri
May 18, 2016 at 6:21 am
Jun 1, 2016 at 3:26 am

6	[Puppet Users] Custom Facts for windows with powershell

Hi, I'm trying to create a custom fact to get the installed software using powershell command in windows as follows... *PS Command:-* Get-ItemProperty ...

Harish Kothuri
May 23, 2016 at 6:08 pm
Jun 1, 2016 at 4:31 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Multiple resource bodies?

Hey; According to the puppet language resource guide at https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_resources_advanced.html: If a resource expression includes more than one resource body, ...

Dkoleary
May 30, 2016 at 5:09 pm
May 30, 2016 at 6:31 pm

6	[Puppet Users] Issue copying files if package exists

Hi, I want to copy files if a package is installed. What works fine with the packages 'postfix', 'fail2ban' and 'apache2' does not with 'openssh-server. class fail2ban { $postfixPackage = ...

Helmut Schneider
Jun 12, 2016 at 1:23 pm
Jun 17, 2016 at 10:21 am

5	[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

5	[Puppet Users] Please Confirm: Puppet Directory Environments can not be named "master" ?

Hello, I'm using PuppetServer 1.1.3 and want to use directory environments (I can not update to puppet 4 because of http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/8447, Foreman is used for reporting and facts ...

Mar 22, 2016 at 9:38 am
Mar 23, 2016 at 12:40 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] How to Read New Files Dynamically with Hiera?

Hi, We need to manage many keys in Hiera. Since many people should be able to edit the keys and in order to avoid a complete mess I was thinking to work with many different files. The problem is that ...

Or
Apr 14, 2016 at 4:32 pm
Apr 18, 2016 at 12:19 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Patterns for multi-arch libraries...

Before we started using puppet at work, we didn't have a systematic process to install packages on our servers. As a result, we had servers in the same "role" that (unintentionally) had different ...

J.T. Conklin
Apr 19, 2016 at 1:13 am
Apr 20, 2016 at 1:40 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Way to pass "arguments" into a subclass?

I am looking for a way to pass "arguments" through multiple includes into a subclass. Situation is like this: ----- Begin code ----- node 'a-file-server.ucdavis.edu' { include physicsnode } class ...

Omen Wild
Apr 28, 2016 at 8:03 pm
May 3, 2016 at 9:09 pm

5	[Puppet Users] New module classes not showing in cosole

Hi , My new test module critical_policy class in not showing in console . I restarted all pe-services , rebooted node but no luck . Any help will be appreciated . # puppet --version 4.4.1 # puppet ...

Ali
May 10, 2016 at 2:43 pm
May 10, 2016 at 6:54 pm

5	[Puppet Users] No package puppetserver available - Fedora 22

I seem to be unable to install the puppetserver package. This is a on a fresh Fedora 22 system running on Linode. # rpm -Uvh https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-fedora-22.noarch.rpm The ...

Ryan Jacobson
May 10, 2016 at 1:17 am
May 10, 2016 at 11:02 pm

5	[Puppet Users] My custom puppet function changes values

Hi Everyone, My custom puppet code changes values randomly. Why? This code creates a random port for me based on the argument's hash. The idea is that this will create a TCP port for me based on the ...

P
May 18, 2016 at 1:10 pm
May 19, 2016 at 1:35 am

5	[Puppet Users] Error with EPP template from "Learning Puppet 4"

I'm stepping through "Learning Puppet 4", and I ran into an error following steps in the book, and I want to understand what went wrong before I report it. The section in question is "Using Puppet ...

David Karr
May 19, 2016 at 8:57 pm
May 19, 2016 at 10:11 pm

5	[Puppet Users] How to control who can add/update permissions in sudoers

Hi all, We're currently on PE 3.8.4. We need to be able to manage sudoers permissions with Puppet, but control things so sudoers permissions can only be granted within a specific module. So ...

Alex Scoble
May 19, 2016 at 12:05 am
May 19, 2016 at 6:24 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Is there a way to publish a module via the Forge API?

Hello, I didn't find a way to upload a module to the Forge using the Forge API. Is this possible? I find it a bit weird that a tool which advocates "infrastructure as code" doesn't cater for options ...

Amos Shapira
May 20, 2016 at 4:51 am
May 20, 2016 at 9:34 pm

5	[Puppet Users] puppet server 4: hiera set up?

Hey; Before dumping a bunch of data into hiera data files, I wanted to run a quick check to verify functionality. This seems to be set up so I'm suspecting my test isn't valid. Could someone take a ...

Dkoleary
May 20, 2016 at 7:11 pm
May 24, 2016 at 10:09 pm

5	[Puppet Users] History of possible usage of EPP URIs in the form of "'puppet:///<module>/<file>.epp"?

In "Learning Puppet 4", there are a couple of variations of calls to the "epp" function. Some of them use the syntax that I find in the actual Puppet docs, which is just "<module /<file .epp", but ...

David Karr
May 23, 2016 at 12:26 am
May 23, 2016 at 6:32 pm

5	[Puppet Users] facter 3.2 global custom facts directory?

Hey; I'm drafing some custom facts that I would like to have available to everyone even outside of puppet. The facts themselves work just fine for root and will work for normal users if I specify the ...

Dkoleary
May 27, 2016 at 7:28 pm
May 28, 2016 at 4:05 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Run Puppet Class only once

Hi there, I want to run a whole puppet class only once when provisioning a system for the first time. Unfortunately I do not find a way to do this. I know how to run commands once using onlyif or ...

Christoph
Jun 7, 2016 at 10:13 am
Jun 9, 2016 at 1:27 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Packaging scripts for Puppetlabs Vagrant images?

I was hoping to test out CentOS v6.8, but the Puppetlabs Vagrant images published only go up to v6.6: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/puppetlabs Is there a repo, or other such info somewhere, providing ...

Ben West
Jun 8, 2016 at 4:57 pm
Jun 8, 2016 at 6:30 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Unexpected behavior when using variable interpolation on a subkey in hiera

Greetings, I'm having trouble using hiera variable interpolation on a sub-key. It appears that along with interpolating the variable, hiera is also returning the un-interpolated data as well, which ...

Arusso
Jun 9, 2016 at 9:17 pm
Jun 13, 2016 at 6:46 pm

5	[Puppet Users] Upgraded Puppet server from 3.8 to 4.5 and Hiera stopped working

This morning, I upgraded to Puppet 4 using the PC1 repository and even through I have the puppet server running, the Hiera files we rely heavily on aren't being seen. I'm getting false values for ...

Bret Wortman
Jun 13, 2016 at 3:54 pm
Jun 13, 2016 at 5:09 pm

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