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Managing Windows with Puppet
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Liam Bennett
September 07, 2015
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Managing Windows with Puppet
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Transcript
Managing Windows with Puppet Experiences from the trenches
@liamjbennett
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Your turn
Not talking about
The puppet tool chain
Powershell
Puppet for all the things
This talk
The basic puppet types for windows The Good … and
some of the new ones
Gotchas for Windows The Bad
Testing on Windows The Ugly
file { 'c:/mysql/my.ini': ensure => 'file', mode => '0660', owner
=> 'mysql', group => 'Administrators', source => 'N:/software/mysql/my.ini', } The Types I Like package { 'Git version 1.8.4': ensure => installed, source => 'N:/software/git-1.8.4.exe', install_options => '0660', } service { 'mysql': ensure => 'running', enable => true, }
exec { 'random script': command =>'cmd.exe /c type c:\path\to\file.txt', }
The Types I Don’t Like user { 'bob': ensure => present, groups => ['Users','Administrators'], password => 'ouch', } schedule_task { 'another task': enable => true, command =>'cmd.exe /c type c:\path\to\file.txt’, trigger => { schedule => daily, } }
windowsfeature { 'Web-WebServer': installsubfeatures => true, } Other useful stuff
registry_key { 'HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Puppet': ensure => present, } exec { 'rename-guest': command => '$(SOME_POWERSHELL)', provider => powershell } reboot { 'after': subscribe => Package['SomePackage'] }
Other useful stuff iis::manage_app_pool { 'my_application_pool': enable_32_bit => true, managed_runtime_version
=> 'v4.0' } iis::manage_site { 'www.mysite.com': site_path => 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite', port => '80', ip_address => '*', host_header => 'www.mysite.com', app_pool => 'my_application_pool', } iis::manage_virtual_application { 'application1': site_name => 'www.mysite.com', site_path => 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\application1', app_pool => 'my_application_pool', }
The Gotchas
File Paths file { 'c:/path/to/file.txt': } file { 'c:\path\to\file.txt': }
file { "c:\\path\\to\\file.txt": }
file/acl file { 'c:/mysql/my.ini': ensure => 'file', mode => '0660',
owner => 'mysql', group => 'Administrators', source => 'N:/software/mysql/my.ini', } acl { 'c:/mysql/my.ini': permissions => [ { identity => 'Administrator', rights => ['full'] }, { identity => 'Users', rights => ['read','execute'] } ], }
puppetlabs/acl
WOW3264 re-direction C:\Windows\System32\ C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
UAC Manually running puppet in a non- admin context ->
Don’t do this.
WinRM Quotas winrm set winrm/config @{MaxTimeoutms="1800000"} winrm set winrm/config/winrs @{MaxMemoryPerShellMB=""}
Reboots Can’t install a package because of “waiting for reboot”
state
puppetlabs/reboot
WTF Bugs KB2773898 - access denied installing msu KB2918614 -
windows update that broke msi installs KB2842230 - ignores MaxMemoryPerShellMB
Testing
• rspec-puppet • beaker (with winrm) • serverspec • vagrant/packer
• booting 4GB images
Questions? And thanks for listening
@liamjbennett
[email protected]
liamjbennett.me @OpenTableTechUK tech.opentable.co.uk