May 29, 2012 playing with mcollective ive got a puppetmaster running centos 5 and some ubuntu boxes i want to be able to run different stuff with mcollective first i tried to test this on my virtual environment with virtualbox, however this failed miserably. Ideal for system administrators and operations selection from learning mcollective book. This puppet module installs a mcollective agent called windowsrunner which allows you to run an arbitrary command on windows via mcollectives mco or. Download for macos download for windows 64bit download for macos or windows msi download for windows. It predates the simplerpc framework but is still valid today. I intend to use mcollective for puppet orchestration. The marionette collective, or mcollective in short, is a cuttingedge tech for running system administration tasks and jobs in parallel against a cluster of servers. All agents are developped on windowsxp machine and then tested and deployed on windows server 2003 and windows server 2008. We are trying to run mcollective on windows platform.
Restrict read permissions on g to mcollective users. Interns worked in so many different areas, from design to marketing to customer success. Facter complementary tool to retrieve systems data. So you want to be a sysadmin how to setup mcollective. Mcollective infrastructure orchestration framework. If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to github and many of them are available for windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. The above test succeeds fine on windows agent with same version of os and pe that fails from within my script. Puppet has come a long way since its early days as an alternative to cfengine. The open source configuration management system has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, and is now officially taking on the enterprise. It features structurefrommotion, multiview stereo and surface reconstruction.
Class names could have lowercase letters, underscores, and numbers. The test node in the following examples a windows 10 desktop with a name of desktopurvo7t4. Agents are better distributed through the puppet forge. Chocolatey is software management automation for windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Sign up builder script to create a windows package for mcollective project. This repository holds legacy code related to the marionette collective project.
When i installed the ruby193 collection it places a whole bunch of files in optrhruby193, and requires source a script to set up. Managing puppet using mcollective linkedin slideshare. See the standard deployment getting started guide to install and deploy mcollective in your own infrastructure. On my github repo, into exe2msi subfolder you can find two preconfigured msi wrapper scripts to create a silent installation msi or a normal msi.
This is the module used in the oreilly book learning mcollective jorhettpuppetmcollective. When the number of servers you have to manage grows, the task of managing them, including keeping the os and packages installed on them updated, becomes without a doubt a nightmare. Add mcollectivegroup attribute, to specify the groupname. Github desktop focus on what matters instead of fighting with git. Read the terminology page if you see any words where the meaning in the context of mcollective is not clear. Settings for the server will be a merge of mcollective commonsetting and mcollective serversetting, highest order of the setting wins.
Add mcollective group attribute, to specify the groupname. The most popular windows alternative is bitbucket, which is free. Add mcollectiveusers attribute these users will be added to the mcollective group, allowing them to run mco as themselves. Its not your typical server setup, but it will serve the purposes of testing an enc. Use the vagrant demo environment to try mcollective. All agents are developped on winxp machine and used in production on. Aug 06, 2012 this video introduces the basic concepts behind mcollective. We currently have no instructions for installing mcollective from source on windows. Mcomaster an html5 based gui for mcollective with redis. By default the service agent ships with a puppetservice util. I first walked through a slide presentation on the basics and background of git and then we broke out into groups to run through a tutorial i created to simulate working on a large, collaborative project. We talk with puppet labs founder and ceo luke kanies about what that means. Foreman lifecyclemanagement for server github pages. The multiview environment, mve, is an implementation of a complete endtoend pipeline for imagebased geometry reconstruction.
Trying to setup mcollective on windows environment with masterless puppet configuration. Settings for the client will be a merge of mcollective commonsetting, and mcollective clientsetting, highest order of the setting wins. Do the server part except transferring the uninstaller then on the node just use addremove programs to uninstall. Pienaar, creator of mcollective discusses his new project choria. Hello, i am an absolute newbie with mcollectivepuppet. Windows and linux deployment tool with gui to vm and. Contribute to abbodi1406batutil development by creating an account on github. Whether youre new to git or a seasoned user, github desktop simplifies your development workflow. How to build mcollective windows package simply me.
Support installing from github and configuring the redis connector. This looks to me like mcollective is defaulting to the systeminstalled ruby 1. Mcollective is a server orchestration tool that is built by puppet labs and so is tightly integrated with the puppet infrastructure. Add mcollective users attribute these users will be added to the mcollective group, allowing them to run mco as themselves. Install and start your middleware, and configure your firewalls. Get a copy of the mcollective source by cloning the github repo or downloading a tarball. I rely heavily on github and foursquare every day, the former for work and pleasure, and the latter for keeping a track of where i go through the course of a day. Run the following commands on the mcollective server node.
Sep 03, 20 as the number and variety of systems that you manage grows, it becomes increasingly important to have the ability to execute specific and targeted tasks against these systems i. The package agent that lets you install, uninstall, update, purge and query the status of packages on your system. This is a plugin that provides fine grained action level authorization for agents. We got feedback after the event that it was a helpful, handson introduction. This agent manages the puppet agent, unlike the older puppetd plugin this one supports puppet 3 and recent changes made to its locking and status files. Because github creates products for developers, a lot of us thought github only had engineering interns. Install ruby, and make sure that your systems ruby version meets mcollective s system. There are many alternatives to github for windows if you are looking to replace it.
The command for checking the list of certificate signing requests to the puppet master from puppet agent is puppet cert list. Senior manager, design infrastructure remote global. We have this as part of the imaging process, but there is a similar ps script you can run from your puppet server. Mco802 mcollective service fails to either startstop. Updates for solaris, macos, and windows coming soon. But that didnt stop us from getting close to one another and making lifelong friendships. Hiera keyvalue lookup tool where puppet data can be placed. It allows the running of longrunning processes with a mechanism to check in on the output from these longrunning processes, which is independent of the mcollective daemon process the daemon can be restarted without interrupting the processes.
In august, we hosted a women who code meetup at hubspot and led a workshop for beginners on using git and github. Top 40 puppet interview questions and answers whizlabs blog. Used to check the configuration of machine into inventory example of facts returned. Agents are better distributed through the puppet forge maintainer. The individual steps of the pipeline are available as command line applications, but most features are also available from our user interface umve. Any mcollective agent plugins based on simplerpc can be restricted with. Windows agents and facts im actually creating some agents and facts for mcollective running on windows server.
Instead it uses the functionality defined in mcollectiveutilservice classes to perform the actions. This entry is one of the simplest puppet interview questions and answers for experienced candidates. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments. Read the change log and release notes to see how mcollective has developed. Class names should always start with a lowercase letter. In the mean time, after some clean up and restart i could get some logs related to puppet agent plugin which could not load.
On nonwindows systems, optpuppetlabsbin will be appended to path if the command doesnt include a file path. Most debianlike and red hatlike systems, as well as windows and macos, can use the official puppetagent package to install mcollective and other puppet components and prerequisites. Mcollective has been a bit neglected by its owners but as its an open source framework and extremely pluggable, i set out to address the very significant getting started hurdles with a new project called choria choria is a set of plugins that creates some high level features but also replaces the security and connectivity layers. All agents are developped on winxp machine and used in production on windows server 2003 and windows server 2008.
How choria improves the operability of mcollective using nats. Puppet interview questions and answers for experienced candidates will deal with practical aspects like this one. Now i have installed mcollective on a windows box which i intend to use as an agent for puppet. If you want to remove them you can do this very easily in emacs. Intro to systems orchestration with mcollective puppetconf.
Oct 27, 20 using msi wrapper you can select the mcollective exe installer created with innosetup and convert it into a simple msi. By downloading, you agree to the open source applications terms. List of agents and facts for mcollective windows server. If you create a file in windows and then bring it onto the mac you might see these m characters at the end of the lines. Since youre using both windows and mac thats where the problem stems from. Multiview environment graphics, capture and massively. Windows provisioning is simple, if you want to avoid the wds route you almost certainly do then check out my project or wimaging, both do essentially the same thing but my solution doesnt support 2k8r2, doesnt need virtualbox and is super fast provisions windows in 12. Code issues 24 pull requests 2 projects 0 actions security 0 pulse. The shell agent allows you to start and manage shell commands via mcollective. The marionette collective aka mcollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. In part 1 of this series we created the required roles, profiles and class as collections within sccm in part 2 we created a web service which queries sccm and then creates enc compatible responses, which can then be consumed by puppet in this next post, well configure puppet to use our enc web service and then try out some node classifications for real.
If puppet is not on the path and you are not using the puppetagent package provided by puppet, this can result in running a binary placed by any user that has write access to opt. Sign up agents and facts for mcollective windows server. If your systems cant use the official package, check the system requirements and either build your own or run from source. Mcollective is a server orchestration tool that is built by puppet labs.
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