[Labs-l] Puppet docs (was: Re: This week's update, now with 7.3% more levity!)

[Silke Meyer]

Hi Dan,

there is a documentation page for the development of one's own puppet
recipes here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Self-hosted_puppetmaster

Recently, I added some FAQ that were based on the questions I had myself
and that were answered on this list.

What would be cool to have on that page: The big picture.
* When does it make sense to "puppetize" one's server configs? When does
it not?
* Advantages: From what I understand, there are two advantages: 1)
quickly get rid of an instance and build a new one with a fresh setup,
2) get configs developed by parts of the crowd from Labs into
production. Others?

Obviously, you can all help to improve that page or post stuff in this
thread that I will then add to the page.

Cheers, Silke


Am 12.03.2013 09:15, schrieb Dan Michael O. Heggø:
> On 11 March 2013 22:09, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
>> My plate this week is going to be occupied mostly with helping people with
>> the new environment, setting up puppet classes to subsume the tools-
>> instances' configuration, and writing documentation aimed at tool
>> maintainers looking to join the project.  (The latter being driven a great
>> deal by what the actual maintainers do in fact stumble on).
> 
> When it comes to documentation, one thing I would love to see is a
> short practical guide on puppet, aimed at tool maintainers on labs. I
> keep seeing puppet mentioned all the time, and I understand that it's
> used to manage the wikimedia servers and so on, but I've never found
> the time to look into it, and it's not clear to me if it's something a
> simple tool with a few dependencies can benefit from using. If the
> guide could clarify this, it would be great. It would be nice to have
> some example puppet files, and a guide on the process of comitting
> them.
> 
> Dan Michael
> 
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