puppet and our test boxes

[Mike McGrath]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:23 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>   
>> I'm going to have all of our publictest and test boxes use puppet with 
>> the 'global' template.  This will keep them in sync with FAS, SNMP, 
>> syslog, all that good stuff.  Any objections?
>>     
>
> Sounds good.  Will puppet allow us to see what's been changed from the
> baseline config as well?  So that it's easier to tell what things we
> need to take with us when we migrate a service from testing to
> production?
>
> -Toshio
Yeah, on first run it logs to syslog.  In addition it makes a backup of 
any file it replaces and stores the file on the puppet server.  One 
interesting thing to note is package and service requirements.  Lets say 
I need to deploy nrpe and nagios-plugins on a box so I can monitor it.  
If I say that /etc/nrpe.cfg requires nrpe to be installed and running 
and that it requires nagios-plugins-disk (to monitor the disk) it will 
automatically install them and start them.  Which, if used properly, is 
a very nice feature.

    -Mike