That is tragic for MCollective (and other things at Puppet). I hope it can be maintained outside of Puppet umbrella (where things go to die), and have integration/migration docs/tools later.
I noticed that Salt Stack had striking similarities. Any thoughts on diffs MCollective vs. Salt Stack vs. Choria? I ask this not from marketing bs, but real get down to the nerd enthusiasts perspective. On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 11:19:46 PM UTC-7, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > > > On 1 May 2018, at 08:04, Joaquin Menchaca <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Both Choria and Jerakia look awesome. I am so glad these awesome folks > are still innovating. I will explore these after my pilot project. They > look useful outside of Puppet, especially Jerakia, I can see using this > across CAP (Chef-Ansible-Puppet). > > Whatever happened to MCollective? That sort of went to Puppet and died. > I remember the book I picked up at an PupetConf said the tool was support > to be orchestrator for both Puppet and Chef. > > > Yeah that’s roughly what happened. Those testing out the Puppet 6 nightly > will notice mcollective is not in puppet agent anymore > > > Choria as the site suggests is both modernising mcollective to make it > usable to today’s open source user and also redeveloping huge parts of it > and adding new end user features. It will provide a trivially installable > way to keep using it post the packaging change in puppet agent. So it’s not > like it’s going away. > > As for puppet/chef etc support. It does, and have always, support other CM > or indeed no CM. Given that I had to make it usable on my own again I out > of realities of available time had to focus on one CM tool to fix the > installation story first > > That’s not to say it does not support living in other ones it’s just not > as turnkey easy > > Someone in the community can totally write some cookbooks to install and > deploy it la plugins and it will work > > This will become easier soon as the new choria daemons are 1 binary but we > will see how that turns out. > > > > For my main scope, I want to use minimum method for data injection, so > maybe bolt or hiera. It's interesting that this is not something easy on > Puppet, and that Puppet really doesn't have variables (really connstants), > so the original design was data was embedded into the module. The > parameters is fills the role of variables that can be overridden. > > Wait, Dayyyuuuum.. Jerakia can Consul... WOW. > > > On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 1:28:21 PM UTC-7, Andreas Zuber wrote: >> >> On 04/30/2018 06:29 PM, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: >> > >> > Bolt has me curious. I have dabbled around with it, running commands >> or >> > a script to a remote node. Are there other ways I could use this? >> > Could I use it to introduce custom facts, or inject values into >> > puppetdb? hiera? The docs are not all that intuitive (had to step >> > through gem source code to discern how to use ssh transport for my >> > environment). >> >> Have a look at https://choria.io/docs/playbooks/basics/ . Like Bolt it >> can run puppet tasks, but you can also write whole plans in the puppet >> language to orchestrate a cluster. >> >> It is super easy to setup with the modules provided and is based on >> mcollective which already comes with the puppet AIO package. >> >> Regards >> Andreas >> > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f5610774-cdd4-4dc6-ab7d-31839f945943%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f5610774-cdd4-4dc6-ab7d-31839f945943%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/361ecaa7-8122-492a-8347-faf117d930ca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
