--environment being over ridden by PE console's default environment group

[Carl P]

Hi,

I'm using dynamic environments with PE 3.7. I have production and development sub-directories in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments containing environment.conf, hiera.yaml, Puppetfile, manifests/site.pp and modules/<various modules>

The nodes I'm trying to apply config to are members of the default production node group only.

When I run 'puppet agent -tv' all gets configured correctly, but when I try to configure it with the code in the development directory using 'puppet agent -tv --environment=development' I see the message:

         Warning: Local environment: "development" doesn't match server specified node environment "production", switching agent to "production".

I've spent a lot of time trying to resolve this problem to no avail. I'd appreciate a little help.

Many thanks
Carl

[Nick Howes]

On Friday, 6 March 2015 16:04:26 UTC, Carl P wrote:

I'm using dynamic environments with PE 3.7. I have production and development sub-directories in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments containing environment.conf, hiera.yaml, Puppetfile, manifests/site.pp and modules/<various modules>

The nodes I'm trying to apply config to are members of the default production node group only.

When I run 'puppet agent -tv' all gets configured correctly, but when I try to configure it with the code in the development directory using 'puppet agent -tv --environment=development' I see the message:

         Warning: Local environment: "development" doesn't match server specified node environment "production", switching agent to "production".

If an ENC (in this case Puppet Console) specifies an environment, then that will always override anything the agent tries to do. In general an ENC can choose not to set an environment, letting the agent decide. So you either need to set the node's environment from the Console, or tell it not to specify an environment. According to the PE docs linked below, it's possible to put a node in a node group with a special envrionment value of "Agent-specified", which will let the node make the decision.

https://docs.puppetlabs.com/pe/latest/console_classes_groups.html#creating-new-node-groups 

[Johan De Wit]

I made a blog about this topic, and how to enable dynamic environments, r10k and PE3.7

http://johan.koewacht.net/puppet/2015/01/12/R10k-and-PE-Console.html

Maybe it has some info in it that you could use

Grts

johan

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[Carl P]

Thanks Nick. I'll try this first thing tomorrow.

Regards
Carl

[Carl P]

Excellent Johan. I'm using R10K so I'll look at your article in detail.

Many thanks.

[Carl P]

Couldn't wait until the morning. Tried it on my lapi and it works perfectly! I really appreciate your's and Johan's help with this.

Regards
Carl