puppet agent on esx host

[kaustubh chaudhari]

Hi,

Can we install puppet agent on ESX host.

1. I am provisioning the hosts with PXE and Kickstart in the post install, i wish to install puppet agent and mange the host with the same.
    Like hardning, network config etc.
2. Use vmware/vcenter module to manage the new host, add it to the appropriated datacenter, configure network. etc

Is this possible?

Any pointer?

-Kaustubh

[Nan Liu]

kaustubh chaudhari wrote:

Can we install puppet agent on ESX host.

Not aware of a way to install puppet agent.

1. I am provisioning the hosts with PXE and Kickstart in the post
install, i wish to install puppet agent and mange the host with the same.
Like hardning, network config etc.

All ESX customizations are either done via API, or over ssh (ssh file_line in vmware_lib).

2. Use vmware/vcenter module to manage the new host, add it to the
appropriated datacenter, configure network. etc

The vcenter module requires a proxy host to communicate to vCenter/ESX. Puppet is installed on the proxy host and not vcenter appliance or ESX.

HTH,

Nan

[kaustubh chaudhari]

Proxy host! I was not aware of it. Can you please share some documentation on this. Also can this be done on opensource puppet ? 

HTH,

Nan