[sles-beta] Puppet Version

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

I like this idea of having an overlap of puppet versions, to allow time to update. We still run puppet 2.6 and the whole fleet needs to operate together. There may be other applications where this applies as well. It would seem to be a desirable approach for an Enterprise distribution.

Cheers,

Greg


From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Mark Gardner
Sent: Friday, 22 February 2013 11:58 PM
To: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Authorized Beta Program
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] Puppet Version


We use our own built package oem-puppet-2.7.19-x.x.norach.rpm / oem-puppet_2.7-x.x.all.deb here.
OK we do need the same version on SLES, Debian & RHEL  in our environment, this was a center point.

There are really a lot of changes between puppet-2.6 and puppet-2.7.x, where backward compatibility is not necessarily given.
Backward compatibility, that is the problem:  enterprise release stands for long term backward compatibility

I 100% agree with you.  That is why I thought the 2.7 version (instead of the latest 3.x version) would be an appropriate jump at a Service Pack Release instead of a mid-cycle release.  The SUSE team has generally been more agressive with software versions than other companies; that's why we love them.

My concern is 2.6 is no longer in development and is nearing it's End of Life where not even security patches will be available.

I would be ok if the 2.7 versions were included in the SDK, just so I have an upgrade path when puppetlabs pulls the plug.  Putting the 2.7 version in the SDK would also give people an opportunity to test their current puppet scripts/modules against the SUSE provided packages instead of downloading the tarball from puppet labs (puppet does not provide rpms for SLES that aren't part of the enterprise puppet version)

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   ~ Mark
         Gardner ~
If it were easy everyone would do it.  Hard is what keeps out the riffraff.
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