PE and VMWare Question

[Dan White]

I am working toward pitching a move from Open Source Puppet to Puppet Enterprise.

One of the driving points is that Where-I-Work has just made a huge investment in hardware/software in the form of a VMWare "local cloud".

In trying to figure out how to plug my current Puppet setup into it, I keep hitting references to middleware tools like "vSphere CLI for Linux" and "vFabric Application Director".

I plan to spin up a less-than-10-node PE Puppet Master for proof of concept purposes.

My question is: What sort of "glue" is necessary between PE and VMWare that  has to be available from the VMWare side ?

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Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

[Craig Barr]

I'm probably be a late off the mark on responding to this but better late then never I guess.

VMware vCloud (formerly vFabric) Application Director integrates with the Puppet Master.
It will register any newly created VMs with the master and is able to apply a certain configuration profile in Puppet to the nodes on creation.

I don't think Application Director will integrate with Puppet Enterprise at present at least not out-of-the-box.

[Dan White]

Better any response than none !
Thanks.

Does anyone know what BFM (Black Magic, voodoo, mondo-juju) is necessary to connect the two ?

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”  (Bill Waterson: Calvin & Hobbes)

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[Pete Brown]

Hi Dan.
I think the puppetlabs cloud provisioner can spin up VMware instances.
I think that is part of the toolkit that gets installed with enterprise.

I know there has been a lot of work getting enterprise talking to VMware and I believe there is a section on it in the docs.

Hope that helps.

Pete.

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