If it's something that means I can finally ditch puppet-dashboard's reporting functionality, I will be on that like jam on toast. Screenshots look very cool, I'll probably try to install it later this week.
On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 5:47:23 AM UTC-7, Daniele Sluijters wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > It’s a lovely grey and rainy day here in the Dutch summer, as good a day > as any to release a new little project. > > > Its name is Puppetboard and has as aim to replace Puppet Dashboard’s > reporting functionality. It does not nor will it include ENC features. It > does all this without storing any data itself but querying PuppetDB instead. > > > The whole thing is built in Python and relies on Flask and WTForms. The > communication logic has been split of in its own library called pypuppetdb > which makes heavy use of the requests library. The interface is powered by > Twitter Bootstrap with the Flatly theme. > > > Though I’ve pushed all the code out and made it public it’s all very young > but it works fairly well. However, I’ve committed numerous barbarities in > the code just to get things working and to figure out how to handle certain > things. For the foreseeable time in the future I’ll be working on cleaning > all this up and figuring out what I can do on my side and on PuppetDB’s > side to make all this work a little better. Especially when it comes to > dealing with big responses from PuppetDB... > > > This is the first time I’m open sourcing a project so that too is all new > to me. I’d welcome the feedback and if someone feels brave enough even > commits on the projects but try and be gentle about it :-). I’ll also be at > PuppetConf including the Developer Day so feel free to reach out to me in > person. > > > To the code: > > > * puppetboard: https://github.com/nedap/puppetboard > > * pypuppetdb: https://github.com/nedap/pypuppetdb > > > I realise that puppetboard doesn't have a test suite right now but it will > soon. In order to do so I have to restructure a few things about it first. > The installation documentation will improve with it. > > > Pypuppetdb's test suite will be expanding the coming days once I'm done > mocking the HTTP requests _query() makes and manage to get a decent and big > enough set of test data to feed into PuppetDB. This will allow me to run > integration tests and benchmark certain changes I have in mind. > > > I’m hoping to be able to get a release out every month with improvements > to both projects, perhaps even faster in the beginning but it remains to be > seen how much time I’ll be able to spend on it. > > > A special thanks goes out to Ken Barber for helping out with all things > PuppetDB and coming up with a way to run PuppetDB on Travis so we can run > integration tests. Hunter, thank you for being so interested in this > project and pushing me to release it. > > > — > > Daniele Sluijters > > Nedap | Steppingstone > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
