Tag: puppet
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puppet-sabayon
I’ve just uploaded my first puppet module to the forge, optiz0r-sabayon, which improves support for the Sabayon Linux distribution in puppet. This does the following things: Overrides the operatingsystem fact for Sabayon hosts Adds a provider for entropy package manager, and sets this as the default for Sabayon Adds a shim service provider, that marks systemd as the…
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Setting up hiera-eyaml-gpg
It’s inevitable at some point while writing puppet manifests that you’ll need to manage some sensitive configuration; be that a database password, an SSH deploy key, etc. One way to deal with this is to lock down your puppet code so that only trusted developers can see the contents. Another approach is to encrypt the…
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Using puppet on Sabayon Linux
I like puppet and I like Sabayon but out of the box they don’t play nicely together. Sabayon is a Gentoo derivative and looks to puppet like a Gentoo system which causes it to use the Gentoo providers for package and service resources. Unlike a stock gentoo install, Sabayon hosts use systemd and a binary package…
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Puppetenvsh Mcollective Agent
There is no shortage of different ways to setup Puppet and to manage how code is deployed. Like many people, I’m using git to store my puppet code. Perhaps a little less normally, I have multiple puppetmasters. For me these solve two problems; resilience in case one master needs to be taken offline, and geographic…