Puppet agent on Windows

[Ugo Bellavance]

Hi,

What are the requirements to have puppet agents on windows servers? I have 2003 R2 and 2008 R2 servers, 32 and 64- bit, Puppetmaster 2.6.

What are the types that can be used on Windows?  Is it production-ready?

Thanks,

Ugo

[Ryan Coleman]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Ugo Bellavance <ug...@lubik.ca> wrote:

Hi,

What are the requirements to have puppet agents on windows servers? I have 2003 R2 and 2008 R2 servers, 32 and 64- bit,

All of those are supported. Here are the relevant docs.

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/pe/2.7/install_system_requirements.html
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/system_requirements.html#windows
 

Puppetmaster 2.6.

You'll need to upgrade your Puppet Master to the 2.7 series at least, though I'd recommend moving to 3.1. This article in the docs should help you with your upgrade.

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/upgrading.html
 

What are the types that can be used on Windows?  Is it production-ready?

Puppet has supported Windows agents for a long time now in the enterprise product and for a while longer in FOSS Puppet. I personally consider it production-ready and know of a few shops that depend on Puppet for their production Windows deployments.

Most of the regular Puppet types work fine on Windows. More details can be found in this doc: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows/#resource-types

I also urge you to check out Windows modules on the Puppet Forge. Many are maintained by the same community members that run Puppet in production. http://forge.puppetlabs.com/modules?q=windows

 

Thanks,

I hope that helps and good luck!

--Ryan
 

Ugo

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