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Environment specific configuration in puppet
I have a custom puppet module for setting up Apache web server and I use templates to copy the configurations. We have different environments like production, Quality Assurance, Integration testing.
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A testing framework for Linux server configuration management
We are a medium sized shop that uses Puppet for Linux configuration management. Since we are a small shop, it's difficult to deploy and maintain DTAP environment.
We normally perform manual testing ...
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Arbitrary software configuration management with Puppet?
I am evaluating Puppet as a potential replacement for an in-house software configuration and distribution system. I am looking for advice on whether Puppet can satisfy certain requirements for ...
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How can the little guys effectively learn and use Puppet? [closed]
Six months ago, in our not-for-profit project we decided to start migrating our system management to a Puppet-controlled environment because we are expecting our number of servers to grow ...
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Generating Puppet resources from array of hashes
I'm new to Puppet and to start using it I want to learn how to manage system users.
I have several users, which share common properties, so I thought I should factor things out.
After some struggle, ...
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Using Augeas to modify Squid configuration
I'm running squid-deb-proxy and I want to alter the configuration using Puppet/Augeas.
When I try this:
augeas {'squid-deb-proxy.conf':
lens => 'Squid.lns',
incl => '/etc/squid-...
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Puppet : How to override / redefine outside child class (usecase and example detailled)
The use case i try to illustrate is when to declare some item (eq mysqld service) with a default configuration that could be included on every node (class stripdown in the example, for basenode), and ...
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Is there any strong, well tested and general purpose puppet recipes-base to be used as starting point for customization?
I have configured a working cobbler system that successfully handles my bare metal server deployment and I'm going to start the configuration management issues using puppet (integrating it as much as ...
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