Initr plugin

Initr automates the lifecycle of computer systems.

From provision to operations, puts and keeps the nodes on track.

It uses Puppet as enabling technology.

See project homepage for screenshots and documentation

Quickstart

• You will need puppet lib to be in your RUBYLIB, or just install puppet from your package manager (gem, apt, yum ...)
• Get latest Redmine

git clone git://github.com/edavis10/redmine.git

• Install initr plugin

cd redmine/vendor/plugins ; git clone git://github.com/descala/initr.git

• Apply redmine patches on initr/redmine_patches/

cd ../../ ; git apply vendor/plugins/initr/redmine_patches/*.patch

• Configure config/database.yml
• additionally to redmine tables you can configure the database where puppetmaster stores configs to tell initr where to look for hosts and facts, or you can simply run "rake puppet:import:hosts_and_facts" to load them from YAML

# you can define a puppet_[RAILSENV] database to
# tell initr where to look for hosts and facts
puppet_development:
  adapter: mysql
  database: puppet
  username: root
  password:

• Migrate databases

rake db:migrate ; rake db:migrate:plugins

• (Re)Start Redmine and check that it lists initr plugin on 'Admin -> Information' screen.
• Configure Initr on 'Admin -> Plugins -> Initr' screen
• Add Initr to a project ('Project -> Settings -> Modules') and Initr tab will appear on that project.
• You can start a local puppetmaster by running puppet/start_puppetmaster.sh from initr plugin directory

Considerations

• Initr is a Redmine plugin, therefore you need a Redmine installation where install 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

• On development all certificate requests are signed (see puppet/autosign.conf), but it is not desirable on production. See http://www.ingent.net/projects/initr/wiki/SigningRevoking_certificates_automatically to automatically sign certificate requests