[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Puppet integration

[Marcus Moeller]

Hi all.

>>> I have been experimenting a bit with a setup that integrates Spacewalk
>>> 0.8 and Puppet 0.25.x.
>>
>> I'm sure you know you can directly manage configuration files using
>> Spacewalk. Yes Puppet can do a lot of things Spacewalk could not.
>> I just want to ask what *you* are missing. Which feature of Puppet you would
>> like to see in Spacewalk.
>
> Often when a configuration file is pushed to a system additional
> actions are required, like restarting a service. For instance a basic
> configuration of ntp on a server may require:
>
> - Pushing a few configuration files
> - Enabling and starting ntpd
> - Making sure the ntpd package are installed.
>
> This can be expressed in one place in a short an simple way in Puppet:
>
> class ntp-client {
>   package { "ntp":
>      ensure => present,
>   }
>   service { "ntpd":
>      enable => true,
>      ensure => running,
>      require => Package["ntp"]
>   }
>   file { "/etc/ntp.conf":
>      ensure => present,
>      owner => root,
>      gorup => root,
>      mode => 0644,
>      source => "puppet://$server/system/ntp.conf"
>   }
>
>   # ....
> }
>
> Without a configuration management system like Puppet and only using
> Spacewalk I most likely would have needed to perform manual steps to
> complete the configuration of ntp.

Yes, that's exactly what I am missing, too :)

Best Regards
Marcus