Category: Puppet

Updating Boxen As you might know, I’m a bit of a fan of Munki and Puppet for managing the Macs I look after. Around a year ago, I really wanted to be able to automate my own setup across my...
Sal: The Munki Puppet At pebble.it, we always wanted to have an easy dashboard to look at to visualise the information we could collect from Puppet and Munki. We tried a few options, but didn’t...
buildCrankPkg

In my last post I promised a tool I’ve been working on to automate the building of a package for crankd.

buildCrankPkg is a small script that will:

  • Pull down the latest...
Managing Macs with Puppet at PSU 2013 For those of you who attended my talk yesterday at PSU MacAdmins on Managing Macs with Puppet, here are are my slides and all of the code and servers used are up on...
Facter 101 Facter is what gives Puppet it’s brains. It collects information about the computer it is run on and then passes it to the Puppet Master for use in manifests and can...
Getting Started With Puppet on OS X (Part 4)

We’ve made quite a bit of progress with our Puppet install. We’ve already made Puppet do something useful with setting up an admin user, but let’s get back...

Getting Started With Puppet on OS X (Part 3) In this post, we’ll do something pretty much all Mac admins will need to do - set up their admin user. Bust first, a little housekeeping. Before reading this post, you really...
Building a test Puppet Master with Vagrant Puppet is awesome. Until you deploy some code that worked locally, but for some reason didn’t when you put it onto your Puppet Master. Whoops. So, you need a testing setup....
Getting started with Puppet on OS X (part 2)

Before reading this post, you really need to read part 1 - none of this will make sense without it!

Still with me? Let’s do finally do something with Puppet. SSH into...

Getting started with Puppet on OS X (part 1) When I was first getting started, the first hurdle I had to get over was trying to work out how it would apply to what I do - manage Macs. There are plenty of resources on...