filebucket retrieval

[Geoff Crompton]

Hi,

While at LCA this year I was talking to James Turnbull, and I think he
said it was possible to
a) pull files off a puppet client to the puppet master
b) push those files out to other puppet clients

I've been reading up on FileBucket and I don't understand how I can
achieve that, or if I'm on the right track. Whats at
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#filebucket
suggests that I'm not on the right track.

Can anyone suggest of the right way to use filebucket to do this, or if
there is something else I should be reading up on.

My end goal for this is to build a /var/lib/misc/passwd.db and group.db
on the puppet master (using nss_updatedb, from ldap), and then push out
those .db files to the puppet clients.

Thanks!

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+-Geoff Crompton
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[Jason Rojas]

You can do this a number of ways that don't necessarily need a file
bucket.

class foo {

filebucket { main: server => puppet }

file {
"/var/lib/misc/passwd.db":
source => "puppet://file_server/path/passwd.db",
backup => main;
}
}

Just make sure your file server is configured correctly and the passwd/
group db files work, and you should be set to go.

What that file type above will do, since I defined the file bucket and
the backup, is it will backup the OLD /var/lib/misc/passwd.db to the
puppetmaster server under the "filebucket/md5hash" directory.

Make sense?
-Jason

[James Turnbull]

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Geoff Crompton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While at LCA this year I was talking to James Turnbull, and I think he
> said it was possible to
> a) pull files off a puppet client to the puppet master
> b) push those files out to other puppet clients
>

Not file buckets - Exported Resources.

Have a look at:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ExportedResources

Regards

James Turnbull

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