Sanity Check Request: Environments in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf

[Dan White]

It just struck me that any environment blocks in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf have meaning ONLY on the puppet master.

Is that accurate ?

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[Peter Brown]

On 24 January 2013 06:20, Dan White <yg...@comcast.net> wrote:

It just struck me that any environment blocks in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf have meaning ONLY on the puppet master.

Is that accurate ?

Pretty much.

I am reasonably sure the only thing you can put in there is manifest and module paths.

It basically tells the master where to look for those files for each environment.

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[Dan White]

Thanks for the response.

I am planning to manage /etc/puppet/puppet.conf for all the client/agents and it struck me that there is very little one needs to manage if the server is not a puppet master.

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[Gary Larizza]

Yep,

Off the top of my head, you would most likely just want to manage the following:

* server

* certname

* environment

* pluginsync

* POSSIBLY vardir/ssldir

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[Dan White]

FWIW, the default file from the RPM is:

[main]
    # The Puppet log directory.
    # The default value is '$vardir/log'.
    logdir = /var/log/puppet

    # Where Puppet PID files are kept.
    # The default value is '$vardir/run'.
    rundir = /var/run/puppet

    # Where SSL certificates are kept.
    # The default value is '$confdir/ssl'.
    ssldir = $vardir/ssl

[agent]
    # The file in which puppetd stores a list of the classes
    # associated with the retrieved configuratiion.  Can be loaded in
    # the separate ``puppet`` executable using the ``--loadclasses``
    # option.
    # The default value is '$confdir/classes.txt'.
    classfile = $vardir/classes.txt

    # Where puppetd caches the local configuration.  An
    # extension indicating the cache format is added automatically.
    # The default value is '$confdir/localconfig'.
    localconfig = $vardir/localconfig

So I doubt I will need to worry about much more than an environment setting.

“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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