puppet on Xen Server

[John Guthrie]

Has anyone had any luck installing puppet on Citrix Xenserver? It
appears that there is no ruby package for the OS itself, and we ran into
dependency issues when we tried to compile our own ruby.

Thanks.

John Guthrie
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[Timothy Sutton]

I've only ever installed a handful of 3rd-party tools on XenServer,
but it was usually a matter of finding EL5-compatible rpms from an
external repo and installing those.

Tim

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[Martin Willemsma]

Hi John,

We have puppet running on Xenserver. Please note that Citrix can start
complaining about 'unsupported custom modifications' to the host in
case you have a technical support contract.

ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i386-linux]

I have these packages installed on XenServer release 5.5.0

rpm -qa | grep ruby
ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb

cat /etc/redhat-release
XenServer release 5.5.0-15119p (xenenterprise)

Also rolled our own for CentOS those are not installed yet on this machine.

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Best regards

Martin

2012/6/1 Timothy Sutton <t...@synthist.net>:

[John Guthrie]

Martin,

Thank you for providing that information. We were wondering which
repository you were using to get those RPMs. We used yum to search for
those RPMs on XenServer 5.6 (the earliest that we have) and we weren't
able to find any of those RPMs. We weren't able to find them on our
distribution CDs either.

Thanks again.

John Guthrie
jgut...@book.com

[Martin Willemsma]

I install and upgrade puppet from gems

gem install puppet --no-rdoc --no-ri

2012/8/9 vioilly <olive...@gmail.com>

Hi,

I am also looking at getting puppet on xenserver

I used this repo http://centos.karan.org/el5/ruby187/i386/ and ran wget on each of the 5 rpms and then used rpm -i

not a pretty way of doing things but I do have ruby installed now, then same as martin. However hitting brick walls with yum install puppet using the puppetlabs repo

Anyone else got a solution to this thread.. would help others i assume?

Vioilly

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[vioilly]

ok.. so (roughly) here's what I did to get the puppet client to install on xenserver

Installed ruby from this repo

http://centos.karan.org/el5/ruby187/i386/

you need these rpms installed for ruby

rpm -qa | grep ruby
ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb
ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-4.el5.kb

run ruby -v to check you have ruby install

[user@xenserver ~]# ruby -v

ruby 1.8.7 (2010-06-23 patchlevel 299) [i386-linux]

installed gem using

yum install rubygem-gem2rpm 

installed puppet using 

gem install puppet --no-rdoc --no-ri 

Hope that helps someone else. Thanks to Martin for his help on this..

[Zane Williamson]

Looks like I got it to install, but curious where the configuration information for puppet agent lives when installing it via ruby gems.  Could you point me in the right direction? 

[Martin Willemsma]

Hi Zane,

Because you installed from gems you do not have the config files set up for you. You need to place a config in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf to control the binary. Also create an init script in /etc/init.d/puppet for the start stop restart.

Just out of curiosity are you using Citrix Xenserver or opensource xen?

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[Zane Williamson]

Thanks Marin,

I have XCP 1.6 installed now.  I wanted to see if I could use my default puppet manifests on it but it appears it will be a pain to integrate.  

-Zane

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