Re: Puppet 3.0 deprecates the kick command

[Forrie]

They recommend installing MCollective, which I've not tackled yet --
but it seems like overkill for basic needs that were met by simple
"puppet kick". There are other options out there like Func, et al.

[Andy Parker]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Corby Wilson <cor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use the command "puppet kick" to do remote triggers of a 60 node cluster.
> In the new release (3.0) it deprecated the command and the command fails
> with:
> Error: Host lcms-dn1.aws.tie.noklab.net failed: Error 400 on SERVER: Could
> not find indirection 'run'

As Forrie points out, we've deprecated kick in favor of mcollective,
or you can log into the box and run the agent directly. That it isn't
working is a bug. You can see a list of upgrade issues that we are
tracking at http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Telly_Upgrade_Issues
and the issue with puppet kick being broken is specifically at
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15717

>
> (I use Passenger on Apache)
>
> The web page it gives for reference:
> http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppet-kick-deprecation
> is a dummy to the deprecation bug.
>
> What are we supposed to use to remote trigger puppet reloads?
>
> -C
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[Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho]

I have raised this same point a few weeks ago at puppet-dev mailing
list [1], when I saw the committed change.

`puppet kick` is very handy and I think that deprecating it is kinda
of an imposition made by PuppetLabs' developers in favor of
MCollective.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-dev/P987lwK4AI0/discussion

[Andrei-Florian Staicu]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Corby Wilson <cor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use the command "puppet kick" to do remote triggers of a 60 node cluster.
> In the new release (3.0) it deprecated the command and the command fails
> with:
> Error: Host lcms-dn1.aws.tie.noklab.net failed: Error 400 on SERVER: Could
> not find indirection 'run'
>

> (I use Passenger on Apache)
>
> The web page it gives for reference:
> http://links.puppetlabs.com/puppet-kick-deprecation
> is a dummy to the deprecation bug.
>
> What are we supposed to use to remote trigger puppet reloads?
>

I've dropped puppet kick (and even the agents) in favor of using pssh.
If you use something like
pssh -h clientlist -o out -e err "puppet agent --test"
you can more easily browse the results afterwards.
You can even set the parallelism, so you don't choke the master or the network.