{"id":2955,"date":"2013-02-03T17:02:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2013-02-03T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T16:02:47","slug":"managing-puppet-using-mcollective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2013\/02\/03\/managing-puppet-using-mcollective.php","title":{"rendered":"Managing Puppet Using MCollective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently gave a talk titled &#8220;Managing Puppet Using MCollective&#8221; at the Puppet Camp in Ghent.<\/p>\n<p>The talk introduces a complete rewrite of the MCollective plugin used to manage Puppet.  The plugin can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/puppetlabs\/mcollective-puppet-agent\">Github repo<\/a> as usual. Significantly this is one of a new breed of plugin that we ship as native OS packages and practice continuous delivery on.<\/p>\n<p>The packages can be found on apt.puppetlabs.com and yum.puppetlabs.com and are simply called <em>mcollective-puppet-agent<\/em> and <em>mcollective-puppet-client<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This set of plugins show case a bunch of recent MCollective features including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.puppetlabs.com\/mcollective\/reference\/plugins\/data.html\">Data Plugins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.puppetlabs.com\/mcollective\/reference\/plugins\/aggregate.html\">Aggregation Functions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.puppetlabs.com\/mcollective\/reference\/plugins\/validator.html\">Custom Validators<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Configurable enabling and disabling of the Agent<\/li>\n<li>Direct Addressing and pluggable discovery to significantly improve the efficiency of the <em>runall<\/em> method<\/li>\n<li>Utility classes shared amongst different types of plugin<\/li>\n<li>Extensive testing using rspec and our mcollective specific rspec plugins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a beast coming at a couple thousand lines but this was mostly because we had to invent a rather sizeable wrapper for Puppet to expose a nice API around Puppet 2.7 and 3.x for things like running them and obtaining their status.<\/p>\n<p>The slides from the talk can be seen below, hopefully a video will be up soon else I&#8217;ll turn it into a screencast.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/16281121?rel=0\" width=\"641\" height=\"534\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/PuppetLabs\/presentation-16281121\" title=\"Managing Puppet using MCollective\" target=\"_blank\">Managing Puppet using MCollective<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/PuppetLabs\" target=\"_blank\">Puppet Labs<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently gave a talk titled &#8220;Managing Puppet Using MCollective&#8221; at the Puppet Camp in Ghent. The talk introduces a complete rewrite of the MCollective plugin used to manage Puppet. The plugin can be found on our Github repo as usual. Significantly this is one of a new breed of plugin that we ship as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,78,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}