Puppet Project

Articles

• PRJTASK0377328 - Setting up Custom Monitoring and KB Articles around Monitoring
• TASK2373111 - Secondary server not responding to SSH login attempts properly
• Foreman the Scalable Way
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Foreman : Journey to High Availability
• Foreman Case Study: High Availability with Chris "discr33t" Pisano

Subject

• Puppet
• Ansible
• BigFix

Puppet

Exists already in the environment.

• Has been moved to NC-1.
• Needs to have FailOver on F5.
• What does Puppet do that BigFix can also do?
• What does BigFix do that Puppet can't?
• Should we proceed with the Project or wait?
• Puppet WILL be used in the OpenStack environment. At least initially.
• What are the impacts if the Puppet server goes down?
  • Is there a backup?
  • Do clients still keep the endpoints stable?
• Red Hat helping us with OpenStack October 10th 8-9 week engagement.
• Target is right after Thanksgiving.
• Configuring Puppet is considered complex with a 'steep learning curve'.
• We won't need the second server for "load", just for Disaster Recovery.
• May be using it's own Github environment.
• What determines if a Linux host is pointed to Puppet/Foreman?

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• Catchup with Keisha to get Sean and I access to the G3 Puppet/Foreman environment.

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GitHub

Apparently our group will be picking this up as well. Greg Brown is going to pick it up.