puppet-push push based puppetry

What am I trying to solve?

• Puppet defaults to using a pull model, nodes pull their configs
• Implement Puppet where pulling is not an option (DMZ)

What does it need?

• SSH key access to the target node as root
• puppet and rsync installed on the remote node and local node
• puppet version 2.7.0 or newer
• Alternate site.pp (site-push.pp)

What does it do?

• Generates facts on target node and fetches
• Compiles the catalog on the master
• Pushes files from the File[] resource and replaces puppet:/// paths
• Modifies catalog to replace the File[] source statements
• Pushes catalog to target node
• Applies catalog

Install

git install

Install git with apt, yum, whatever your flavor

yum install git

git clone

git clone git://github.com/tomas-edwardsson/puppet-push.git

build rpm or install

make rpm

and install that, or

make install

configure

edit /etc/puppet-push.conf

PUPPET_VAR_DIR="/var/lib/puppet"
PUPPET_MODULE_DIR=/etc/puppet/modules/production
REMOTE_SSH_USER=root

VERBOSE=0

Filebucket configuration

If you are using a filebucket server for the pull based hosts you will need to override it for the push based hosts.

An alternative site.pp file is provided which can be set in puppet-push.conf but if you can conditionally set the filebucket and file backup parameters in the manifests for the push based nodes it's possible to skip a special site.pp file.

Containing:

filebucket { local:
        server => false,
        path => "/var/lib/puppet/clientbucket",
}

File { backup => local }

Run

puppet-push <nodename>

Disclaimer

This is an ALPHA, I have only run it on a few nodes and it may break something.

License

GPLv3

Authors

Pall Valmundsson pall.valmundsson@gmail.com

Tomas Edwardsson tommi@tommi.org

Sponsored by the Icelandic National Hospital