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Overview

Initr is a tool to provide user interfaces to Puppet modules. It is a node classifier and configures the classes you assign to a node. It also provides tools to kickstart puppet-client deployment.

• Screenshots
• Feature requests or bug reports are welcome!
• Signing/Revoking certificates automatically

Modules

• Installing modules
• Writing modules (or how to add a view to a puppet module)

These are our modules so far. Each provides a Puppet module and a user interface to configure it within Initr:

• bind. Configures a DNS server.
• copy_klass. Point to the configuration of another class. For instance, you configure bind once, but the same configuration (all the zones) is applied to many hosts.
• custom_klass. Define a class name, assign to a node and configure it with a list of custom parameters.
• fail2ban. Choose which fail2ban jails to configure. Adds custom jails.
• package_manager. Configures package manager (currently only apt).
• webserver1. Manage virtualhosts, databases, users, FTP, awstats and backups of an standard webserver stack.
• wpkg. Add installers to host groups. Minimal package management for Windows with WPKG.

Features

• Add views to configure puppet classes and modules
• Add, remove, move and “symlink” puppet classes to nodes
• Easily add nodes by copying and pasting a single line
• View hosts, with its facts, classes, exported resources and reports.
• Role based authorization to view or edit nodes, with special rights for node owners.
• Leverage Redmine’s functionalities

Considerations

• Initr is a Redmine plugin, therefore you need a Redmine installation where run the plugin.
• It is recomended to run a Puppetmaster configured with storeconfigs.
• You’ll need to configure puppetmaster external nodes to call the script provided in bin/external_node.sh which gets node classes and parameters from an initr url.
• Initr accepts http reports on /reports url, so to make reports appear on initr, configure puppetmaster to use http reports

[master]
  reports = http
  reporturl = http://<your_url>/reports