I recently started to integrate Puppet with my company’s OS installer to build custom Gentoo servers in almost no time. The install/build system reached a stable state and i want to share some information’s on what i did to get it working. The Gentoo support of puppet is not perfect but sufficient for my use case. There are still some issues to solve:
- Slots don’t work (I’m working on a patch for the portage provider to address this issue)
- No nice way to manage /etc/conf.d/net
- Only the runlevel “default” can be managed (This is sufficient for most cases)
- No built in USE flag support (i use a binhost so this doesn’t really affect my setup). Check this site for a possible solution
The missing slots integration is especially important when it comes to Tomcat. Tomcat requires sun-jdk-1.5 and sun-jdk-1.6. I solved this by adding sun-jdk-1.5 to our install image. Apart from this problems it works very well. Continue reading Short review: Puppet for Gentoo servers
