puppet - the group policy for linux admins

puppet - i say this is the group policy function you need for maintain linux environments.this page is my mind map of implementing the "central configuration solution" called puppet.


== planned environment ==

• maintainence the config-files on client
• svn commit to repository
• puppetmaster checkout/update from svn repository
• puppet clients get config's from puppetmaster (connect to dns name "puppet")

== for setup watch youtube ==

• linux admin playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=20633067FC3F814D 
• cli puppetmaster:

puppetca --list (show new clients)
puppetca --sign client.domain.name

== doc's ==

• puppet rezepte/templates! : http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Patterns
• http://conshell.net/wiki/index.php/Puppet#ensure 
• reference: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/0.25.5/type.html
• (!) manipulate file content: define ensure_key_value($file, $key, $value, $delimiter = " ") http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Password_Management_Patterns

== dashboard ==
(see if all clients are reporing every 30 minutes...)

• http://zcentric.com/2010/03/11/install-puppet-dashboard-on-redhatcentos-5/ (setup)
• http://zcentric.com/2010/04/09/init-d-script-for-puppet-dashboard/ (init.d for reboot)

== other links ==

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_(Software)