How Can Puppet Install IIS With Full Duration Logging of the Installation...
I want to use Puppet to install IIS with full-duration logging. Through a simple PowerShell command, I install IIS but with poor Puppet logging. I need to get around this and have Puppet log everything...
View ArticleHow can i tuning puppet4 server with load balancer ?
I use open source puppet4 server ,and i have thousands of node. So , how can i tuning the puppetserver ?
View ArticleSet environment variables on apply
I have seen examples of how to do this but I can't find it again. How do you set variables on doing a puppet agent. Something like puppet agent { $environment = "dev" } ? thanks,
View ArticleDoes puppet allowed changing username?
Hi, We have a new company policy regarding username and therefore I have to change all linux username. I wonder if I only could change this: @users::virtual::localuser { 'old_username': to:...
View ArticleArguments to Resource[] are all empty/undefined
Hi all ! I am currently trying to indentify the cause for some warnings I have in one of our puppet master logfile : INFO [puppet-server] Puppet Caching node for WARN [puppet-server] Puppet Arguments...
View Articlenode_openstack credentials
hello, I installed the puppet node_openstack and trying to communicate with my openstack instance via # puppet node_openstack list --endpoint=........ but the problem I got is to set the credentials,...
View ArticleDeployment of openstack instances via Puppet
Hi, has someone experience with deployment of Openstack instances with puppet(via Openstack Rest API)? I found this project:...
View Articleapplying manifest on Windows
when i try to apply windows manifest, I am getting this error on windows Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter creates failed on Exec[create repo_dir]: creates must be a fully qualified path at...
View ArticleWhat do I replace legacy facts with in the hiera.yaml file?
According to the following documentation, we have a lot of legacy facts: https://docs.puppet.com/facter/latest/core_facts.html There's a legacy fact that I have specified quite a lot in my hiera.yaml,...
View ArticleError 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Failed when searching for node [host]
I have a freshly installed node which I would like to connect to my Puppet 4.8.1/Foreman 1.12.4 server. The server is configured to autosign the hosts, which seems to work, because the certificate...
View ArticlePass array values in class
Hello All, I am begineer with puppet ,I was instructed to install the below packages using "class" what i have done initially is $packages = [ 'python-pil','python-django', 'requests'] class web {...
View ArticleHow To Affect Resource Type Declared In Another Puppet Module
I include the class `nova::compute::libvirt` and this class defines a Package resource like so: package { 'libvirt-nwfilter': ensure => present, name =>...
View ArticleNTP package does not install on first puppet run on EC2 bootup
Puppet version: 4.5.2 In the site manifest file, ntp module is included to install ntp service: class { '::ntp': servers => [ '0.au.pool.ntp.org', '1.au.pool.ntp.org', '2.au.pool.ntp.org',...
View ArticlePuppet-Hiera consul backend
Please provide examples how to use the puppet-hiera module for Hiera backend consul. Below is my implementation: I am getting syntax errors on the backend_options paths statement. I am not sure if this...
View ArticleDuring package upgrades, check no processes are orphaned before trying to...
Hello all, During a package upgrade, is there any way to ensure puppet does a check to ensure no processes were left over running, orphaned before trying to start a new service associated with the new...
View ArticleIssues in getting hiera eyaml to work
1) Eyaml is setup with public key 2) Hiera.yaml is setup with backends consul, eyaml and yaml. 3) A string is encrypted 4) The encrypted string is mentioned in the below file: [vagrant@localhost...
View Articlebeaker test workflow
Hi I've been watching a tutorial on beaker and the suggested workflow was to run beaker with provisioning and no destroy. Then run it with no provisioning against the container left running; I'm using...
View ArticleSame change twice in one catalog run
As per Title, puppet (4.8.0, server 2.7.0) tries to apply the same change twice in one run. As Puppet is supposed to be idempotent, in practical terms this shouldn't(!) be a problem, BUT (afaik), this...
View ArticleAutomatic lookup for default values in module data doesn't work properly when...
Hello! I'm facing an issue with automatic lookup and module data. I've followed this [guide](https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/lookup_quick_module.html) to set it up. My puppet server is running...
View Articlepuppetdb query not working
Request: curl -X GET http://puppet:8080/pdb/query/v4/resources curl -X POST http://puppet:8080/pdb/query/v4/resources -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d...
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