Puppet Post install

[Jason Hatman]

I have a complete and working Puppet setup.  Now, I need to automate it.  Looking at the following page: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/installation.html#post-install  I can see that it wants me to set up launchd processes for OS X in order to have the Puppet service start at boot.  I just want to make sure that this is necessary.  I have a master/agent configuration.  In a master/agent setup, does it automate this by default or do I still have to setup launchd on each machine?

This is a separate issue from the first one.  I have completed my puppet-dashboard setup and it's running fine.  However, I've noticed that after I reboot the machine, I no longer have any worker processes running.  I have to manually run "sudo -u puppet-dashboard env RAILS_ENV=production script/delayed_job -p dashboard -n 4 -m start" before any they start working again.  I assumed once I converted dashboard to run in apache that this would be automated.  Am I wrong?

Thanks in advance!!

[Matthaus Owens]

This is in response to your dashboard question. 

Running dashboard via apache will handle the starting of the rails app itself, but what you've quoted is the dashboard-workers, which are separate processes that handle doing work for dashboard, like processing reports from the puppet master. There are some init scripts in the puppet-dashboard repo that should work on most platforms to enable the workers to start automatically on boot.

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[Moses Mendoza]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Jason Hatman <jason....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a complete and working Puppet setup. Now, I need to automate it.
> Looking at the following page:
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/installation.html#post-install I can see
> that it wants me to set up launchd processes for OS X in order to have the
> Puppet service start at boot. I just want to make sure that this is
> necessary. I have a master/agent configuration. In a master/agent setup,
> does it automate this by default or do I still have to setup launchd on each
> machine?

Yes, generally speaking you will still need some form of service
management script (launchd plist) in place anywhere you want the
service to by running as a service. On OSX, puppet uses launchd to
manage services, so on OSX `puppet resource service 'puppet'
ensure=running enable=true` will rely on the existence of a launchd
plist in place on that host.

>
> This is a separate issue from the first one. I have completed my
> puppet-dashboard setup and it's running fine. However, I've noticed that
> after I reboot the machine, I no longer have any worker processes running.
> I have to manually run "sudo -u puppet-dashboard env RAILS_ENV=production
> script/delayed_job -p dashboard -n 4 -m start" before any they start working
> again. I assumed once I converted dashboard to run in apache that this
> would be automated. Am I wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>

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[Jason Hatman]

Thanks!