Puppet 4 .x (standalone)

Info

A Rancher Cattle Catalog entry for deploying a Puppet 4.x Open Source-only master. The Catalog entry is suitable for development and testing of Puppet codebases.

Usage

Launch the Catalog entry. If no Puppet control repo is specified in the Rancher console no attempt will be made to sync a Puppet control repo. Catalog compiles will be against a default Puppet code base in the 'production' environment.

If a Puppet control repo is specified during launch of the Catalog entry r10k will run a full branch sync of the control repo during Puppet container provisioning. A manual resync post-launch can be performed by restarting the Puppet container however the full cycle of container restart, r10k sync, and load-balancer registration + availability is on the order of seconds to minutes so this is of limited use for rapid iteration of Puppte codebases. This is a known issue (see TODO).

The puppetserver process in the Puppet container is configured for autosigning of Puppet agent certificates('*').

Notes

The Puppet master configuration in this Catalog entry is, by design, minimal in functionality:

currently no management consoles
currently not PuppetDB integrated
lacking in any other community add-ons/bells-and-whistles

See the TODO.

Development / Bug Reports / Feedback

The Puppet 4.x (standalone) Catalog entry resides in a repo alongside other Rancher community Catalog entries at:

https://github.com/rancher/community-catalog

however development happens via the following repo:

https://github.com/nrvale0/rancher-cattle-puppet

For direct access to the author / maintainer it probably makes to file bug reports and file pull requests at the latter repo.

TODO

add ability to configure r10k to authenticate to private control repos using an SSH key
provide a method for manual resyncing of control repos using r10k which does not involve restarting the Puppet container
provide user a way to specify periodicity of automatic r10k syncs of the control repo
integrate one of the Open Source consoles for viewing Puppet Reports, Facts, and other misc node information
allow the user to pass custom autosinging globs

Author

Nathan Valentine - <nathan@rancher.com | nrvale0@gmail.com>
https://www.rancher.com
https://nrvale0.github.io
twitter: @nrvale0

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