Tutorial I gave at LISA 2014 http://goo.gl/G0TLfJ
This is a talk about running puppet in the enterprise, or at scale. The original title of Mastering Puppet was Puppet in the Enterprise, the talk was to present the ideas in the book.
The tutorial files are located on github at: https://github.com/uphillian/lisa2014
Talk I gave at puppetcamp seattle 2014 http://goo.gl/b2NISc
In the first part, Troubleshooting Puppet talks about problems with communication, how to make sure puppet is running and connecting to a master. In the second part, the talk moves on to compilation and catalog application issues. Real world solutions are presented throughout.
I've been running into the 800 node limit on mcollective and splitting up my nodes into subcollectives. I had a spot where I couldn't split up the nodes, so I started looking at why we were hitting this 800 node wall.
I'm using activemq with the ssl plugin, after turning on all the debugging I could find in activemq, it turns out it's just a simple resource limit problem.
While configuring OMD (yes, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, no, not really) I ran into a point at which apache was supposed to run as the OMD user for check_mk. Hard coded into the check_mk configuration is a call to
I'm not sure of the utility of this, but maybe it'll be useful to someone else. I was requested to output all the facts from a system in xml, not wanting to type much I made the following script...
#!/usr/bin/env rubyrequire 'facter'
require 'rubygems'
require 'activesupport'Facter.loadfacts
facts = {}for fact in Facter.list.sort
