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I'm starting to use puppet and in configuring the puppet master I feel I'd like puppet to maintain that host as well. What's curious is that I see no recommendation or even much discussion for or against, which has me wondering if there's a reason.

I imagine something like this to bootstrap on host creation (pseudo-shell-script):

git clone git://github.com/me/puppit.git /etc/puppet/ puppet apply puppetmaster.pp

and then running puppetd on that host as well so that it pulls the catalog from puppetmasterd (same host) and so stays appropriately configured.

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That's pretty much how I do it. Depending on the exact situation, there will likely be some other commands to run (installing Ruby, Puppet itself), but in general I just have a deploy shell script in the root of the repo which does the necessary, including an initial Puppet run to get the machine bootstrapped.

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I also manage my company's Puppet server with Puppet.

I used to work like this:

I've configured a hiera role (using a custom fact) which is called Puppet and then I'd configure everything related to the puppet server in the role.yaml file.

But since then, I've changed it to having a puppet.fqdn.yaml in the hieradata/fqdn folder and now when I want to change Puppet's configuration I edit that file.

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  • Hiera is so often recommended in the sense of "eventually you'll realize you need it", why'd you switch away? Commented Sep 4, 2015 at 12:58
  • Because Puppet server is exceptional and I think it's safer that way. Commented Sep 4, 2015 at 15:12
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What is your question exactly? I always use Puppet to manage the master itself. -- Even though the initial puppetmasterd installation may be manual or only shell-scripted.

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