Puppet Dashboard/console

[sanjay kumar chahar]

Hi 

I am very new to puppet and I have installed puppet master server and configure 2 node ( agent ) and its working.

I want to know how can I manage puppet, 

Is there any management console/ Puppet dashboard  ?

If yes answer of above question  Can I installed it on separate  VM/server 

Please provide documentation to configure it.

Thanks 

Sanjay

[Nick Howes]

There's a good roundup of the options here:

http://www.olindata.com/blog/2014/01/puppet-management-gui-comparison 

Puppet Enterprise Console is arguably the best, but that's not available if you're using the free open source option. If you want something similar you are probably best looking at Foreman or Puppet Dashboard. Both are in development, though Foreman may be seeing more attention as Red Hat have started using it in their Satellite product.

[PierreR]

There's a good roundup of the options here:

http://www.olindata.com/blog/2014/01/puppet-management-gui-comparison 

Puppet Enterprise Console is arguably the best, but that's not available if you're using the free open source option. If you want something similar you are probably best looking at Foreman or Puppet Dashboard. Both are in development, though Foreman may be seeing more attention as Red Hat have started using it in their Satellite product.

Is Puppet Dashboard really deprecated as mentioned in the link ? It seems more active than both Puppetboard and Puppet Explorer. This last one looks promising but completely inactive apparently.

I guess you are right about Foreman. Even if it does not use the PuppetDB, it looks like the sole contender.

[jcbollinger]

On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 4:23:05 PM UTC-6, PierreR wrote:

There's a good roundup of the options here:

http://www.olindata.com/blog/2014/01/puppet-management-gui-comparison 

Puppet Enterprise Console is arguably the best, but that's not available if you're using the free open source option. If you want something similar you are probably best looking at Foreman or Puppet Dashboard. Both are in development, though Foreman may be seeing more attention as Red Hat have started using it in their Satellite product.

Is Puppet Dashboard really deprecated as mentioned in the link ? It seems more active than both Puppetboard and Puppet Explorer. This last one looks promising but completely inactive apparently.

Dashboard was once a PuppetLabs project, but PL no longer maintains it.  It is open-source, though, and I think there is now another maintainer.  I'm uncertain how active the project now is, or whether it is or will be ready for Puppet 4.


John