Re: [Puppet Users] Automate puppet agent runs

[Christopher Wood]

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/rest_api.html#run

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:48:44AM -0700, Mike Carr wrote:
> We are building a system that has a front end for a user to request a
> host, the use can select what they want on the host. Our application will
> build/apply the correct profiles, we would then like to trigger the agent
> to check-in. Our app is current written in Groovy so a REST API would be
> great. Is this possible?
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[Mike Carr]

I feel embarrased, I was on that page but did not see that...thanks.

So if I enable this on the client then I will have to maintain certs for each agent?

[Christopher Wood]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:40:11PM -0700, Mike Carr wrote:
> I feel embarrased, I was on that page but did not see that...thanks.
> So if I enable this on the client then I will have to maintain certs for
> each agent?

I've never used it so don't really know. That said, don't you already have certs in the puppetmaster's CA? Perhaps you could leverage those.

> On Monday, August 20, 2012 11:54:44 AM UTC-7, Christopher Wood wrote:
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> [1]http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/rest_api.html#run

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> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:48:44AM -0700, Mike Carr wrote:
> >    We are building a system that has a front end for a user to request
> a
> >    host, the use can select what they want on the host. Our
> application will
> >    build/apply the correct profiles, we would then like to trigger the
> agent
> >    to check-in. Our app is current written in Groovy so a REST API
> would be
> >    great. Is this possible?
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[Mike Carr]

I could, except the app will live outside the puppet master, I could store the certs on nfs though...humm...