Puppet

[Mike McGrath]

So the puppet prototype is up and working with proxy1 and proxy2.  I'm 
currently getting more configs on those boxes (like global configs, ntp, 
smtp, etc) I'd encourage all that have access to login to lockbox and 
poke around.  Adding files is pretty easy and we have total control over 
it.  Editing and deploying files is easier than ever.  Basically edit 
your config file and restart puppet on the remote server or just wait 
for the next check.  We're moving to a service centric management model 
instead of host centric.  In the old system it wasn't obvious what files 
were related to what other files, the fedora accounts system is a good 
example.  In the new system there will be one manifest file for the 
Fedora Account System.  This manifest will define the proxy configs, 
application configs, client configs (nsswitch, cronjobs, etc) and the db 
configs.  This way it will be very easy to see exactly what the Fedora 
Account System consists of.  We can also define "requires" for the 
config files so that nagios config files require nagios to be installed 
on that box.  Here's the wiki link:  
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Puppet

Thoughts comments?

      -Mike